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Article: Our poisoned paradise.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2008
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Our poisoned paradise
Nicola Anderson visits the worried residents of Cork harbour
The view from Mary O'Leary's garden, amid the drowsy drone of bees, is as beautiful as any you will find in Ireland: a wraparound vista of Cork Harbour with its gentle inlets, isles and vivid blue seas.
Even the much-maligned Spike Island, site of a proposed new prison, has a ruggedly impressive charm all of its own.
A singular blot mars this breathtaking seascape and one which local residents are finding increasingly difficult to block from their vision, given what they now know about Spike's sister island, Haulbowline, where nothing grows on the black ...