Rural community fired up over plans for waste incinerator in Limerick

After a controversial landfill closed last year, residents of a Co Limerick village thought their lives would improve, but council plans to lease the site for a gasification plant has locals vowing to fight against the ‘environmental horror’, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

HAVING just come through a 15-year landfill nightmare, a rural Limerick community says it will not survive an “environmental horror” plant which Limerick City and County Council now wants to foist on it.

Gortadroma landfill near the village of Shanagolden closed last year. Local people rejoiced at a return to life free from the foul spin-off from having 3,000 tonnes of municipal waste lorried into its midst every week since it opened in 1999.