Calls for State to buy 'contaminated lands' from dairy farmers
The disused Magcobar Quarry outside Silvermines. Pic: Fergal Shanahan.
Ciaran Moran
Calls have been made for the State to purchase land from farmers near former mining sites at Silvermines, in Tipperary.
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