{"id":2080,"date":"2026-05-25T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:15:34","slug":"river-liffey-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/river-liffey-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"River Liffey pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following on from the \u20ac50m IT fiasco, Irish Rail is embroiled in another scandal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/diesel-leak-river-liffey-samuel-beckett-bridge-7046606-May2026\/?utm_source=thejournal&amp;utm_content=top-stories\">The Journal<\/a> reports that fuel storage facilities owned by Irish Rail at Connolly Station are believed to be leaking into the River Liffey with all the negative consequences that this entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has shades of the problem uncovered in 2019 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/esb-oil-leaks-4668490-Jun2019\/\">ESB power cables were leaking oil into the Grand Canal in Dublin.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the \u20ac50m IT fiasco, Irish Rail is embroiled in another scandal. The Journal reports that fuel storage facilities owned by Irish Rail at Connolly Station are believed to be leaking into the River Liffey with all the negative consequences that this entails. This has shades of the problem uncovered in 2019 where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}