State must pay €5m and €15,000-per-day fines over landslide

A €5m fine has been imposed on the State by the EU’s top court over a failure to comply with EU legislation that might have prevented landslides linked to the construction of a windfarm in the west of Ireland in 2003.

The penalty is set to increase further, as the Court of Justice of the European Union also imposed an additional daily fine of €15,000 until the Government achieves compliance with environmental legislation on assessing the impact of the windfarm Derrybrien, Co Galway.