Cork County Council fined €17k over waste licence breaches in Carrigtwohill

Cork County Council: Pleaded guilty to five charges.

Cork County Council has been ordered to pay fines and legal costs totalling €17,500 for breaches of its waste licence to operate a major landfill site outside Carrigtwohill, including allowing dangerous levels of potentially explosive gas and polluted liquid to build up.

The local authority pleaded guilty at Midleton District Court to five charges of breaching the terms of its licence to operate the East Cork Landfill in a prosecution taken by the Environmental Protection Agency.