Park at centre of €40m disaster zone clean-up

A 13-hectare public park in Cork Harbour, with a 3km circuit for walking and running, forms part of a €40m clean-up plan for one of the State’s worst environmental disaster zones.

Details of how the illegal dump at Haulbowline is to be contained and the site transformed are published today. They include the capping of the East Tip section of the island and the development of an “engineered structure” around the perimeter of the dump before a public park is developed.

The planned park, on the site of the former Irish Steel/Irish Ispat plant, will include grassland, wetland, bird viewing areas, bird roosting ledges, car parking, and a range of other landscaping.