Construction of 18,500 homes only feasible if Shannon-to-Dublin water-supply project and Greater Dublin sewage project built

New town of 18,500 homes planned on 1,000 acres beside what was once Dublin’s main landfill

Construction of 18,500 homes only feasible if Shannon-to-Dublin water-supply project and Greater Dublin sewage project built

Objections underline the difficulties of developing beside existing suburban areas

From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s Dunsink was the location of Dublin’s largest rubbish dump