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Carlow County Council is taking court action later this month over what officials claim is the unauthorised storage of treated sewage sludge from Dublin on a farm near Tullow.

The treated sludge, which comes from Dublin City Council's sewage treatment plant in Ringsend, is marketed as Biofert and used as a fertiliser on tillage land in the area.