State could face daily fines over clean-up failure of Haulbowline contaminated site

An environmental group has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over what it alleges is the State’s failure to properly progress the decontamination of one of the country’s worst polluted industrial sites.

Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) have claimed the failure to ensure the decontamination of Haulbowline Island in Cork, based on a ‘whole of island’ approach, could lead to daily fines from the European Court of Justice.