Sean Laffey

Irish Water has strongly defended its plan to extract water from the Shannon to serve much of the east coast, including Dublin. It has also rejected s(...)

More than half of people admit to wasting water but a quarter do not believe they need to conserve water due to the level of rainfall in Ireland, acco(...)

Water supplies in Dublin are on a knife-edge with shortages set to increase due to a combination of population growth and climate change, a leading cl(...)

Children under five should not play in sand at Dublin beaches where warnings not to swim are in place this weekend, a specialist in public health medi(...)

Sewage overflows at Irish Water’s Ringsend water treatment plant happen around 15 times a year, but mostly in winter, the utility has said. The enti(...)

More than 34,000 submissions were made in relation to the development of a new regional sewage plant for Dublin – most of which were objections to the(...)

The health of a large section of the Irish public is being put at risk because investment in waste water treatment infrastructure is not happening qui(...)

Existing water supply sources “do not have the capacity or resilience to meet future requirements of homes and businesses in Dublin and the midlands”,(...)

Irish Water has rejected the concerns of hundreds of objectors to its plan to extract water from the river Shannon and pipe it to Dublin in a €1.3 bil(...)

It is described as “one of the most important [infrastructural] projects in the history of the State”. Though not quite at the scale of Ardnacrusha hy(...)