C & D Pet Foods has been fined £50 for causing pollution to escape from its plant and to enter a river at Edgeworthstown, Co Longford. As part of a settlement with the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board, agreed between the parties outside Edgeworthstown District Court, C & D will pay a total of £2,928 in costs to the Fisheries Board. Also by agreement the company, of Tinnynarr, Edgeworthstown, will contribute £5,000 towards the restoration of the Black river, a tributary of Glen Lake, a wildlife reserve.
Following agreement between the parties, the terms were reported to Judge Aidan O'Donnell. He told the parties in court, who included a C & D director, Mr Philip Reynolds, that he wanted to compliment them on the way they had dealt with the case.