Monaghan man, aged 71, fined for NI waste offences
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James (Seamus) McCooey, 71, of Killyneill, Tyholland, Monaghan, pleaded guilty to breaches of waste management legislation at Armagh Magistrates’ court and was fined £2,000 on Friday.
Environment Agency officers had investigated two sites owned by Mr McCooey on Knockbane Road in Middletown, just on the south-west Armagh side of the Republic-Northern Ireland border, where scrap metal, old vehicles and more had been deposited without authorisation, according to a statement from Northern Ireland’s Executive Office.
Despite an earlier failure to remove the waste, both sites have now been cleared.