A decision is expected by the end of September on the OPW’s plans for the Feale/Cashen Estuary Drainage Project.Proposals recommend installing 16 pumping statio.
The campaign to preserve some 22,000 acres of farmland and 690 rural homes in Kerry looks set to become the first battle in the expected war over rewetting in Ireland.
PLANS for a 50-berth camper van park in the centre of Listowel have been thrown into doubt after Kerry County Council moved to restrict the development by up to 30 berths.
THE Listowel Regional Public Water supply has yet again failed testing for the noxious pesticide MCPA, with two of the three ‘exceedances’ detected across the entire county last year found in the Listowel supply.
A MAN who pleaded guilty to removing sand by the lorry-load from the mouth of the River Feale at the Cashen in North Kerry last year – just 11 days after he had been fined for the same offence – has been sentenced to three months in prison.