Raw slurry blamed for North Cork fish kill

A large discharge of raw slurry has been blamed for the death of at least 1,200 fish in River Blackwater in North Cork.

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) received a call to its confidential hotline at 11am on Monday and were on scene at the Owentaraglin river, a tributary of the Munster Blackwater, within a matter of hours.

However, they found the dead fish spread over a 2km stretch of the water near the village of Kiskeam.