Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural A : Monaghan man fined £2,000 for Armagh waste sites

James (Seamus) McCooey, 71, of Killyneill, Tyholland, Monaghan, today pleaded guilty to breaches of waste management legislation.

He was fined a total of £2,000, plus £15 offender levy, at Armagh Magistrates' court.

Northern Ireland Environment Agency officers investigated two sites owned by Mr McCooey on Knockbane Road in Middletown, where quantities of waste, including scrap metal and end-of-life vehicles, had been deposited without the appropriate authorisation.

Despite an earlier failure to comply with a notice to remove the waste, both sites have now been cleared.

1. Mr McCooey pleaded guilty to eight charges and was fined £250 for each, under the following Articles of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997:

one charge under Article 4(1)(a), in relation to the depositing of waste,
seven charges under Article 4(1)(b), in relation to the keeping of waste.

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