A pig farmer has been jailed after a judge labelled him “an absolute disgrace” for failing to prevent an environmental time bomb from threatening lakes in the midlands. Donal Connaughton (55) had acted “in a blackguardly fashion” and now expected the authorities to clean up the environmental nightmare he had created at the pig farm in Co Longford, said Judge Séamus Hughes. The prosecution was taken by Inland Fisheries Ireland and Judge Hughes jailed him for 10 weeks and fined him €3,000 with €5,400 costs…
Irish Times, 13/01/15. Read the full article ‘Pig farmer jailed for creating environmental ‘monster’‘.
