FG Leader visits Usk

Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny paid a visit to the site of the proposed 'superdump' at Usk last week, and promised that he would do what he could to highlight the plight of local residents.

Mr Kenny was there at the behest of local authority elections FG candidate Martin Heydon, who will be contesting in Kildare South.

Afterwards, noting that Mr Kenny was the first party Leader to visit the campaigners against the waste facility, campaign chairman Pat Higgins said the visit had given them 'new hope'.

The campaign has succeeded in getting another judicial review of the recent An Bord Pleanala decision to locate the dump at Usk.