Tipperary company placed on environmental watch list over continued pollution

A company in Tipperary has been put on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) priority sites list.

Tipperary Co-Op, which recently announced their merger with Arrabawn Co-Op, is on the EPA list for "discharges to water" from the Tipperary Town based company.

The EPA say that the priority sites list "is a system of performance-based indicators to rank industrial and waste licensed sites in order of priority for enforcement".

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The Tipperary site was among only three sites that remain on the list in 2025 having not increased their compliance during 2024.

Tipperary Co-Op was inspected 15 times last year by inspectors from the EPA, with an aim to increase the Tipperary company's compliance with environmental regulations.

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Only two sites were inspected more than Tipperary Co-Op, with Wellman International in Cavan having been inspected 19 times, while Starrus Eco Holdings on the Dock Rd in Limerick City was inspected 16 times.

Just 54 sites nationwide have appeared on the EPA's National Priority Sites list since it was first published in 2017.