Cork city faces €250k bill to clean up illegal dump yet again

Cork City faces a potential €250,000 bill for the clean- up of a notorious illegal dump site — again.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now been asked to investigate activity on the Ellis’s Yard site on the northside of Cork City amid fears it poses a serious environmental and public health risk.

Fianna Fáil councillor Ken O’Flynn lodged a formal complaint with the State’s environment watchdog yesterday after firefighters were called to deal with several rubbish fires on the site across the weekend.