Radon gas levels in Cork home equivalent to an X-ray per day 

Radon gas levels in Cork home equivalent to an X-ray per day 

EPA programme manager Andy Fanning,  director Micheal Lehane, and scientist Alison Dowdall at the launch of the agency's new radon maps. Picture: Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography

A Cork family who rang a remediation firm on the back of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest radon warning was told the amount of cancer-causing gas in their daughter’s bedroom was the equivalent of an X-ray being done every day.

A new online interactive map from the EPA, outlining radon gas levels around the country, crashed due to the volume of traffic on it within hours of going live on Thursday. 

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