Environmentalists in court bid for release of report into salmon escape

An environmental group is going all the way to the High Court in a bid to secure the release of a Government report into a massive escape of farmed salmon.

An estimated 230,000 salmon escaped from a fish farm in Bantry Bay last February.

The Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) group has been trying, without success, to acquire a Department of the Marine report into the incident, which Agriculture and Marine Minister Simon Coveney has not released.