Articles tagged with: Carrickmacross Water Treatment Plant

By MICHAEL McDONNELL michael@northern-standard.ie THE official opening of the new €3.5 million Carrickmacross Water Treatment Plant on a hill at Nafferty, to the north of the town on Thursday last was hailed as a “fantastic occasion” by Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Alan Kelly TD, who subsequently unveiled a plaque to mark the event. The Minister, who had earlier passed a group of about 70 or 80 anti-water charges protesters at the nearby Ballybay Road roundabout on his way into the plant (see story in Carrickmacross News), repeatedly sought to ...