Three days later the government cancelled the planned incinerator.

Ms Laura Burke was recently project manager for Indaver Ireland's planned incinerators in Co Cork and Carranstown, Co Meath.

This may have implications for the arrangements the Dublin local authorities will have with the planned incinerator at Poolbeg.

He does not believe the planned incinerator will pose a health threat, but admits he has not read Dioxin Exposure and Health Data.

Racehorse trainer Mr Aidan O'Brien has threatened to leave Ireland if a planned incinerator near his stables in Ballydoyle, Co Tipperary, goes ahead.

Protestors took to the streets of Dublin in a convoy of cars to raise awareness of opposition to a planned incinerator in the capital.