A blockade of lorries at Fingal County Council's Balleally landfill site at Lusk, Co Dublin, has been lifted, the High Court was told yesterday.
Mr John Doherty SC, for the local authority, told the court that before the blockade ended following a High Court order, up to 700 tonnes of waste a day was being turned away.
He told Mr Justice Butler that since last Thursday entry to the site had returned to normal.
Mr Doherty said the council was accepting an undertaking not to further interfere with access to the site from Dick Mooney, Patrick Devoy, Paul Wade and Michael McCrory, hauliers based in Lusk, Swords and Rush who had mounted a picket in protest against increased charges.
They blockaded the entrance to the site after a €30 load charge was imposed on dumping at the landfill.Fingal County Council said the protest affected all waste disposal in north county Dublin as Balleally was the only licensed landfill within the local authority area.
The dump has been the scene of angry protests by locals since the mid-1990s.