Horse trainer filled lagoon with rubble

A Cork horse trainer who admitted putting tens of thousands of tonnes of construction rubble into a wildlife lagoon — turning it into a horse-track — faces sentencing on a serious environmental charge at the end of the month.

John Collins, who is aged around 30, of Brown Island, Ballintubrid West, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to disposing of waste in a manner likely to cause environmental pollution at that address on June 3, 2014.