Athlone residents have been agitating for the closure of a 50-year-old dump at Golden Island on the banks of the Shannon.
Report shows the dump outside Athlone town.
Front page newspaper article in The Westmeath Independent about action being threatened over the dump.
Residents demonstrating in Athlone town.
Interview with George Ledwith, Residents Committee, on a proposed compulsory purchase of a site at Fossagh, near Moate, for a new dump.
Interview with Marie Allen, resident in Fossagh, on the potential health hazards of the proposed dump.
Interview with Jack Taaffe, Westmeath County Manager on the need to find a satisfactory site for a new dump.
The proposed site at Fossagh, which is adjacent to the Dublin-Westport Railway line, and the surrounding homes and landscape.
Interview with Jack Taaffe on the proposed site at Fossagh.
Westmeath County Council offices.
Interview with George Ledwith on his attitude to the potential new dump at Fossagh.
Interview with Jack Taaffe who argues that the community objections are premature.
Interview with George Ledwith who refutes Taaffe's suggestion that the community objections are unreasonable.
The reporter is Mícheál Ó hUanacháin.
