Owner gets council backing to fill in pond

THE owner of a holiday park pond in which a two-year-old baby drowned last summer has secured council backing for a fresh bid to have it filled in.

The move comes as a report emerged that another child had to be rescued from the Seafield Caravan Park pond in Youghal, Co Cork, five years ago, which prompted an unsuccessful attempt at that time also to have the pond drained.

Dan Dorrian, whose Borrach Investments company owns the park, has persuaded the town’s councillors to back a proposal to have its environmentally protected status lifted.