Businessman fined €1m for polluting Wicklow drinking water

A Wicklow businessman has been fined €1m for putting the drinking water in Blessington at risk of contamination by illegally dumping dry industrial waste.

John Healy (aged 67) a married father with three sons, who owns Blessington Plant Hire and then also owned Blue Bins Ltd, collected waste from local companies before dumping it over a four-year period on a small seven acre site called Dillon’s Down at the Roadstone (Dublin) Ltd site in Blessington.