Liadh Ní Riada MEP – ‘Cork factory must take heed of local concerns’

Sinn Féín MEP Liadh Ní Riada has called for an independent environmental report to be commissioned on a plastics factory in West Cork. The Ireland South MEP was speaking after An Bord Pleanála approved planning permission for a plastics factory near Skibbereen. “The national authorities and the company behind the factory needed to take steps…

Liadh Ní Riada, MEP – ‘Government must act to slow plastic disaster’

Liadh Ní Riada and her Sinn Féin colleague, Lynn Boylan, have welcomed the European Parliament´s successful vote today on passing the EU Strategy on plastics. Both have been working with environmental NGOs and scientists in playing a front role in raising awareness and fighting against the widespread pollution of plastics. Ní Riada, who sits on…