No solution to pearl mussel protection woes

Nine months after Cork county council was warned by the EU to protect a tiny river creature, no solution has been found.

No solution to pearl mussel protection woes

The conservation warning is holding up development along the Blackwater Valley in Co Cork.

Last December, councillors were told that the EU was insisting the freshwater pearl mussel be protected in the River Blackwater.

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