Mobuoy Dump News Today

A vote by just three DUP councillors to allow a Co Armagh landfill site to be extended beside Lough Neagh could lead to “a completely avoidable environmental disaster”, campaigners have said.

Derry City and Strabane District Council has green-lit a “robust and detailed” review of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs’ (DAERA) Mobuoy dump remediation plans.

For decades, Northern Ireland was an example of the danger of conflict. But for years it has exemplified the danger of consensus.

The Belfast Telegraph’s Sam McBride has been nominated for two awards at the prestigious British Journalism Awards.

More than ten years after the authorities finally shut down Mobuoy illegal dump, the sentencing of two men who have admitted involvement has yet again been delayed after a pre-trial hearing was postponed in a dispute over legal aid.

There’s an end of days feel to Northern Ireland. It’s not that Irish unity is necessarily looming, but that dramatic elements of what society has taken for granted are breaking down, with limited reason to believe that they’ll be coming back soon.

The Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life have been shortlisted for five awards at the Media Freedom Awards 2023.

More than £4.3m of taxpayers’ money has so far been spent on remediation and other work at Northern Ireland’s biggest ever illegal dump.

Across Northern Ireland, vast tracts of land have been poisoned in ways which civil servants admit creates a “high risk” to human health — but Stormont has repeatedly and consciously chosen to leave us unprotected.

An estimated million tons of illegal waste lies buried just a few hundred metres from the edge of Derry City and just five metres from the river which supplies its water.