Building trust may be Irish Cement's toughest ever construction project
People tell of growing up with dust that nobody took much notice of. It was just part of the deal of having a good employer in the locality. Irish Cement has been “a good employer” in words used several times during a six-day hearing into the company’s latest licence application, by people from Mungret who acknowledge it has provided jobs for 82 years in the country’s most disadvantaged city. But they now fear the good employer may become, in the words of the one of the contributors, “a bad neighbour”. The saga began in 2016 when the company announced it wanted to stop burning fos...