50,000 gallons of slurry killed fish

Up to 50,000 gallons of agriculture slurry may have been responsible for a major fish kill in the Lubagh River in Limerick.

Since the alert was raised on Monday, up to 650 dead adult salmon and trout have been taken from the polluted waterway near Kilmallock.

Michael Fitzsimons, senior fisheries environmental officer with Inland Fisheries Ireland who is overseeing the situation, said the total scale of the fish kill has not been ascertained, as the fish taken from the river were found in just about half the 8km stretch of the Lubagh.