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Environmental group say they will ‘rally the troops again’ if Michael O’Leary’s plans for nuclear station in Wexford go ahead

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Environmental group say they will ‘rally the troops again’ if Michael O’Leary’s plans for nuclear station in Wexford go ahead

Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary

Suggestions that a nuclear power plant could be built in south Wexford have left locals declaring they would “rally the troops again” to prevent such a development. In an interview with The Irish Independent last week, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said Wexford would be the ideal site for a nuclear power plant and even offered to sell the land he bought in the county last year for that purpose.

Asked if the plant should be built near his estate in Gigginstown, Co Westmeath, Mr O’Leary said: “The obvious place would be to build it somewhere on the coast, which is where most of the windmills should be, not in Bord na Móna bogs, all of which are low-lying. I would encourage it to be built in Wexford. I have a four-acre site I could let them have going remarkably cheaply and save me a whole load of grief.”

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