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Ireland, Greece condemned for green breaches
Ireland has been condemned by the European court of justice for breaching a 1980 directive on the protection of groundwater against dangerous substances. In a ruling issued on Thursday EU judges said operators of a municipal landfill in the county of Wicklow had failed to prevent leachate from being discharged into water.
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