Indaver boss driving Ringaskiddy incinerator plans ‘sorry’ for residents

On the eve of an oral hearing into plans for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, the man driving the project for the past 16 years has admitted to “feeling sorry” for the residents of the area.

Indaver Ireland managing director John Ahern told the Irish Examiner that when they were looking for a location and the advisers recommended a site in Ringaskiddy he said: “Oh Jesus. Can it not just even be on the other side of Ringaskiddy so that we don’t have to go through their village?”

“I think they haven’t had a fair deal from the State in all of the years,” he said.