Huge clean-up operation at illegal rubbish tip in regeneration area

A massive clean-up operation is continuing to clear a near 10-acre illegal rubbish tip in a Limerick housing estate. Workers are in the process of removing hundreds of tonnes of waste material from the site in St Mary’s Park.

The housing estate, with up to 460 houses both privately and local authority owned, is one of the city’s regeneration estates.

The unlawful and indiscriminate dumping, on an extensive tract of neglected open space, had been continuing for almost 30 years.