Ireland: Gyproc has confirmed that it did not carry out subsidence monitoring on a disused County Monaghan gypsum mine which subsided in September 2018, damaging community buildings and sports fields. The company revised its position on the checks after a ‘fresh and detailed analysis of records’ following an investigation by the Irish Independent. The newspaper reported that, having recorded a slowing of subsidence to millimetres per year, the company decided that six monthly monitoring, the norm in the area according to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, was unnecessary.
Gyproc’s activities further caused a road to fall into a sinkhole in December 2018.
The subsidiary of Saint-Gobain has applied to install an open cast mine on a site including that of the erstwhile popular sports facility.
