Knotweed solution: If we can’t beat it, let’s eat it
Introduced as an ornamental plant, the giant knotweed was not only uprooting road surfaces, it has delayed the building of a hospital, and is now a major problem on the banks of the Laune — one of the county’s major rivers.
Fianna Fáil councillor John Francis Flynn called for “a knotweed enforcement officer” to be appointed. “It’s out of control along the river bank,” Mr Flynn warned.
