Topsoil pitch proposal gets red card

A Cork city councillor has cried foul over national and EU waste legislation which has blocked his innovative proposal to save a sinking soccer pitch.

Fianna Fáil councillor Fergal Dennehy’s idea to use topsoil from a nearby social housing project to fix the sunken pitch on the southside of the city was shown the red card at Monday’s city council meeting.

But he insisted last night he is not off-side and that he plans to tackle city officials again on the issue.