Dublin engineer criticises media over Port Tunnel coverage

Senior Dublin City Council engineer Tim Brick has criticised what he stated was a huge amount of misleading media information about the leak.

Mr Brick said that headlines such as "Tunnel of Death" were completely exaggerated. He said the council was "as fed up as everyone else" that the leak was not fixed in the time they had originally planned. He said the structural honesty of the tunnel had never been in question.

Mr Brick also condemned media reports that water from the tunnel was being pumped into the Tolka with later concerns about pollution. He stated that the water was ground water from Fairview Park, which had been pumped away for the past three and a half years. It was not polluted, he added.
He added that the pumps would be turned off when the tunnel was finished.