Rivers festival in Ennistymon to take place two years on from devastating fish kill
TWO years on from an unprecedented and devasting fish kill in North Clare, the Ennistymon Rivers Festival will take place.
TWO years on from an unprecedented and devasting fish kill in North Clare, the Ennistymon Rivers Festival will take place.
*Denis Vaughan. Photograph: John Mangan SANCTIONS against Uisce Éireann for a major fishkill in North Clare have been welcomed by local groups.
Uisce Éireann has pleaded guilty to two water pollution charges in connection with a ‘fish kill’ that occurred downstream of an Uisce Éireann water treatment plant in north Clare last May. In the case before Ennis District Court, solicitor for prosecuting authority in the case, Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), Kevin Sherry said that Uisce Éireann is pleading guilty to permitting deleterious matter to go into …
*The fish kill in North Clare. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is prosecuting Uisce Éireann in connection with a fish kill that occurred in North Clare in May of this year.
*Ballymacraven River. A NORTH CLARE group are to hold a protest rally this Saturday as part of their efforts to quell pollution in rivers across the county.
*The unprecedented fish kill occurred in May. INVESTIGATIONS ARE ONGOING following an unprecedented fish kill in North Clare.
UP TO 2,000 fish have died outside Ennistymon prompting both Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Environment Protection Agency to commence investigations into the matter.