Taskforce formed to avert slurry disaster

A taskforce of government departments, farmers, and other agencies has been set up to avert an environmental pig slurry disaster in the Midlands.

More than 4m gallons of slurry are on the verge of leaking into waterways, including an angling lake, from a largely unauthorised piggery in Longford.

The disused farm has been described as “a toxic site” by a judge at the district court.