Court bid to force health risk disclosure

Environmental campaigners are to initiate High Court proceedings to try and force State authorities to raise public awareness about what they claim is the threat posed to public health by contaminated material on part of the former Irish Steel plant on Haulbowline.

Friends of the Irish Environment has notified Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as minister for defence, Agriculture Minister Michael Creed, and Cork County Council that it intends to seek a judicial review of the failure to meet their obligation to disseminate information about contamination on the island in Cork Harbour.