KNOTWEED: ‘Authorities decided to ignore this issue for years, because of the costs in dealing with it’

Sean Ó Riordan talks to Liam O’Flynn who says there are tens of thousands of knotweed plants in the country

THOUGH Government and local authorities had been aware of the knotweed problem for years, they ignored it until quite recently.

That’s the view of Liam Flynn, who has been fighting knotweed for years, and who has seen it spread massively in the last three to four years.