Covid-19 Site Health & Safety Demonstration by Suir Engineering and Cerberus Security
Channel: Macroom & District Environmental Group
Date: 2020-06-04

We learned how Suir Engineering and Cerberus Security are enacting their new Covid-19 health and safety measures during phase 1 of the plan to get back to work in Ireland during the Coronavirus pandemic. They might be able to loosen up a bit after phase 2 kicks in...


OK seriously: 



This is a short video of some of the events of the 2nd of June at Fruit Forest Farm, where there is a conflict between Keel Energy which is a wind farm developer and local landowners. Complaints have gone into the HSA and the Gardaí, but it will probably take a few days for them to act. We need support at the camp 24/7 for the next few days. Joe Franz owns that roadside and welcomes all to camp or park. Just bearing witness even for a short time is a huge help. And spread the word too by sharing these videos please.


I'll post a longer introduction to the conflict written two weeks earlier below.

Talk to Joe Franz, the land owner objecting: 087 0555627
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Suir Engineering Ltd
Unit 9A Cleaboy Business Park,
Old Kilmeadan Road,
Waterford, X91 PX92,

T: +353 (0) 51 359500
E: reception@suireng.ie

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Contact the security company:

+353 21 239 3490         info@cerberus.ie

 Cerberus Security Ltd, 8 Coburg St, Cork City

 twitter: @Cerberusecurity
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‘No 110 KV cables on our land’

Cables are being laid underground on Joe and Diane’s land at Carrigarierk, West Cork. The company Keel Energy has not asked their permission to lay these cables, and have ignored the fact that Joe and Diane live here when they submitted their proposal for the massive substation that they are erecting beside their land. The purpose of the substation is to be to transform the energy from the windmills which they want to build on Shehy Mór (the mountain which I grew up beside). The windmills from Shehy all across the back of Shehy to Barnadevane and beyond are too close to people’s homes, disrespecting biodiversity regulations, ignoring the opinions and objections given by many of the local people, and their construction and subsequent use creates a loud vibration which disrupts the daily lives of those who never chose to live close by, also lowering the value of their homes.

If anyone lives along the cable route, the least you should be gaining from this project is financial compensation (the cables are going under the road- if they are on the side of the road that borders your land, you can refuse them or at least demand the compensation that is lawfully yours- a fact that has not been made transparent, that is cheating you out of what is yours).

Joe and Diane welcome support. There are friends down there every day to show that they see the destructiveness and indifference exhibited by the company, toward people like Joe and Diane, who live off the grid and have had their existence denied by those with more power and money than they deserve. If anyone has any ideas of something they can do to help show support, please do. Anything creative, music, camping or food is welcomed (while maintaining social distancing of course).

If anyone has a beaten up trailer/ caravan that they would risk, Joe asked if it could be placed just before where they are standing in the photo- in order to increase their physical presence on the land.