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Merck Sharp and Dohme and farmer case

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,149 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    no prob:)

    Does anyone else have any input about this thread ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭dieselbug


    Well if it was proven that a couple of hundred cattle died due to emissions then it stands to reason that the same emissions can't have done any person living in the vicinity any good.

    There was also the Schering Plough attempt to build a chemical plant at Kilaloan,
    Now that caused some deep local devisions at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,149 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    dieselbug wrote: »
    Well if it was proven that a couple of hundred cattle died due to emissions then it stands to reason that the same emissions can't have done any person living in the vicinity any good.

    There was also the Schering Plough attempt to build a chemical plant at Kilaloan,
    Now that caused some deep local devisions at the time.

    What happened with those lads ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭dieselbug


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    What happened with those lads ?

    I sent you a PM


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    What happened with those lads ?
    http://politico.ie/archive/fear-suir-valley
    "It was to be another chemical plant on the Clonmel side of Merck. "We had the experience of Merck (which was being built during this period) and we saw Merck was good and we thought Schering Plough would be another Merck", says Edwin Fitzgerald of the ITGWU. At first there were two hundred objectors to Schering Plough: bit by bit the number dwindled to eight.
    One of the eight had his cows maliciously poisoned, others had their cows let out on the road. One found broken glass on his driveway, another's house was threatened by a mob. There was garda protection for some of them. Their children were threatened"
    I heard from someone who lived near Kilaloan that one had a dead animal left at his door but don't know if it is true


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  • Registered Users Posts: 49 ernielove


    He died last year unfortunately. There was a lot of fight in the man as he pursued many cases against state bodies and otherwise in the following years. I do wonder if that became 'all consuming' in the end.



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