Art and activism dominate Indaver hearing
Monkstown resident Mark Elmes broke down more than once as he outlined how a lone farmer had taken on the might of pharma and the State in the past, and although the Supreme Court ultimately found in favour of John Hanrahan of Co Tipperary on three counts, the victory came at great personal expense to the Hanrahan family.
Mr Elmes, former president of the Rotary Club of Cork, was comparing the plight of locals living in Cork Harbour opposed to incineration to the Hanrahan case. In this case, he said, the Supreme Court had established a precedent ruling that “incineration of toxic chemicals, is, in law, to be understood as the most likely explanation for any appearance of ill health in the immediate area of the operation”.
