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...

FINES totalling £135,000 and a suspended prison sentence was imposed today for health and safety breaches which led to an on-site...

A school and its maintenance contractor have been fined after workers disturbed asbestos at the school while installing a new heating...

A woodworking company and its director have both been sentenced after failing to assess and control the risks associated with asbestos...

THE Government has spent nearly 70m removing asbestos from schools, Government buildings, and military establishments around the country,...

John was enjoying his retirement with his wife Beverley, spending time at their property in the Murcia region of Spain. John renovated...

There are more than 5,000 kilometers of asbestos water pipes in Ireland. The substance can cause cancer if inhaled, but Irish Water...

The family of a retired factory worker who died from an illness caused by exposure to asbestos has expressed concern that other employees...

My wife and I were digging in the garden of our home which we bought five years ago and we came across some asbestos that had been...

The Dutch Cabinet has agreed with State Secretary Wilma Mansveld's (Infrastructure and Environment) proposal to ban asbestos roofs in the...

Netflix is suing a production studio for more than £200,000 over claims that production of period drama Bridgerton had to be moved...

Harrington Asbestos Removal were instructed to carry out a controlled environmental clean of an asbestos insulation board ceiling that...

The most commonly found Asbestos Roofing Material is corrugated roof and slates. Before commencing any refurbishment/demolition works in...

In our most recent site-audit under ARCA Site Audit Accreditation Scheme, Harrington Asbestos Removal has maintained an excellent grade...

As per the Irish Examiner report, a company in Cork has been fined for €50,000 for exposing their workers to the risk of inhaling the...

The HSA is the Law Enforcer in Ireland when it comes to Asbestos Management. To protect the workers from the risks related to Asbestos...

"The Encapsulation is the process of applying an impermeable material over or around the Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) which helps...