Horrified golf club members have demanded explanations from management after learning the cost of cleaning up an illegal asbestos dump could top €1m. Kilkenny Golf Club has been served with an enforcement order requiring removal of the waste which came from a house and sheds it demolished without permission. The club must now hire experts in asbestos removal and, before the end of June, produce a plan detailing how the work will be carried out. It comes after a year of upheav

A site foreman has been fined €12,500 for failing to notify two staff members of the presence of asbestos while carrying out work on a city centre building site. Dennis McAuliffe (51) was employed as the site foreman by McAleer & Rush Ltd., a London based construction company who were the main contractors for the refurbishment work being carried out at Findlater House on Cathal Brugha Street in June 2016. McAuliffe of Killnaswalla, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, pleaded guilty at Dubl

Residents of a Cork village remain concerned about the site of a piggery which contained asbestos, over nine months after the structure was demolished. The piggery was knocked down on April 12 and 13, 2025. Immediately after the demolition, concerns about the presence of asbestos at the site led to the cancellation of GAA games on a neighbouring pitch, while the local playground was also empty in the immediate aftermath. While some clean-up of the site has been carried out,

AN asbestos removal company has been fined £15,000 after it failed to meet safe working standards “by a considerable margin". Imposing...