Meath Co Co fined for Boyne pollution

Meath County Council has been fined €1,000 and ordered to pay over €2,500 in costs and expenses for polluting a part of the river Boyne.

At Carrickmacross District Court, the Eastern Regional Fisheries Board argued that the pollution stemmed from a sewage plant at Staleen in County Meath on August 23 last.

The council pleaded guilty to a charge of causing sewage to fall into a tributary of the river.

A defence lawyer said it was an antiquated plant and they hoped to have it replaced as a cost of around €3m within the next year or so.