The presence of freshwater mussels in a lake which supplies water to Beara is hampering the development of housing in the area, a meeting heard last week.
WEST Cork – and particularly the Beara peninsula – will be ‘sterilised’ of further development unless imminent solutions regarding the safe extraction of water from Glenbeg Lake can be trashed out between Cork County Council, Uisce Éireann, and the National Parks & W