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A waste disposal company and its director have been
fined a total of €60,000 for illegal dumping at a number
of sites in Co Wicklow in 2001.
Swalcliffe Ltd - T/A Dublin Waste - and Louis Moriarty
had pleaded guilty to dumping lorry loads of waste,
including highly infectious clinical waste, in Coolnamadra
and at Whitestown, Baltinglass, on dates in 2001.
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Judge Tony Hunt said he had to take into account that Mr
Moriarty had paid €1.35m to remediate the site in Coolnamdra,
that he was the only person who tried to remedy the situation
from the start and also the way others were dealt with through
the courts.
Over several months in 2001, Moriarty dumped 300 lorry loads
of waste in a sand and gravel pit in Whitestown.
It included domestic, commercial, construction and demolition
waste and some hospital waste. He also dumped 350 tonnes of
waste on agricultural land in Coolnamadra. The hospital waste
included blood-stained swabs, theatre waste, syringes, blood
veils and scalpels.
By dumping it illegally, Moriarty had saved himself up to
€2,000 per truck load.
The sentencing of Moriarty brings to an end a garda investigation,
involving the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which
began nine years ago and involved investigating six illegal
dumps.
It has resulted in the prosecution and sentencing of three
waste operators, two truck drivers and two landowners.
Source - RTÉ News
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