Manager supports closure of loss-making county landfill

CLARE county manager Tom Coughlan last night recommended to councillors that landfilling at the county’s loss-making central waste facility cease.

At the council’s October meeting in Ennis, he said that taking into account the economic circumstances and the current waste environment “I don’t see any option but to accept the recommendation that landfilling cease”.

Mr Coughlan said €4 million is required to extend the landfill and the council would find it very difficult to raise this.