Port company left with €250k bill

THE Port of Cork company has been hit with a legal bill of almost €250,000 following the decision on its container terminal.

An Bord Pleanála awarded the costs against the company after ruling against its plans to build a €225 million facility at its Oysterbank site in the lower reaches of Cork harbour.

The costs are associated with the Bord’s oral hearing into the proposed container terminal project, which ran for three weeks in April after more than 500 written submissions were made objecting to the project.