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Waste paper trail
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A massive investigation into illegal dumping is sparked by a BBC documentary. Anton McCabe reports.
AUTHORITIES ON both sides of the Irish Border and in Scotland have launched a major investigation after a BBC television programme exposed Cyril James McGuinness, nicknamed Dublin Jimmy, as central to a multi-million-pound illegal waste racket.
Kilkenny County Council says it has held discussions with the Environmental Protection Authority and local authorities in the region: "We are taking the situation seriously and we are taking a trawl through all our permits."
Waste firm Raymond Crane of Belfast holds a waste permit in the region; its sole director and shareholder is McGuinness's wife, Mary McGuinness, of Teemore, Co Fermanagh.
Earlier this year. the council refused a permit to Mr McGuinness' main company. Fermangh Waste Recycling, which holds a waste carrier's licence in Scotland.
The BBC followed waste from Wexford in the Irish Republic to a landfill at Lendlefoot, Ayrshire. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency says it has investigated the site but believed any offences had been committed in Northern Ireland, not Scotland.
"Some of the waste, when we looked at it. came from Southern Ireland," says an agency spokesman. "How it came to Northern Ireland I do not know as that is outside our jurisdiction. We will fully co-operate with our colleagues in Northern Ireland in collecting evidence."
Connaught Waste, the authority which issues waste permits for the West of Ireland, has requested a video of the programme. as McGuinness also holds a permit in that region.
• In a separate investigation, Northern Ireland waste company Aquaforce has been fined £7,000 for four offences of transporting waste to a site that had no authority to accept it, then burning the waste. Aquaforce is based at Iloghill Rd, Newtownabbey.