Irish Examiner reported that a cork contractor is claiming EUR 114 million damages against three other firms over alleged breaches of agreement to clear contaminated materials from the former Irish Steel plant site at Haulbowline Island in Co Cork.

Mr Louis O'Regan of O'Regan Limited has sued CTO Greenclean Environmental Solutions Limited with an address at Sarsfield Road, Wilton, Cork; Hammond Lane Metal Company Ltd, Pigeon House Road, Dublin; and Eastwood Limited, Herbert Street, Dublin, for alleged breaches of a purported partnership agreement and written contracts of August 2007 reached between the sides for the clearance of the contaminated materials from the Haulbowline site.

Greenclean have filed a defense but are not represented at the proceedings while Hammond Lane and Eastwood deny there was a partnership agreement.

Mr Paul Burns SC for the plaintiff said that his client claims he was in partnership with the three defendants in respect of works carried out for Hammond Lane at the former Irish Steel site and says they breached the partnership agreement in failing to take into account his interests and views as regards a claim Hammond Lane made against the Minister for the Environment arising from those works.

He also claims they acted unlawfully and in breach of an agreement in failing to pay him sums due under the partnership and a contract between the parties. He also claims costs incurred by him of EUR 2.9 million should have been taken into account before arriving at the profit figure to be distributed between the partners and he therefore was entitled to EUR 2.1 million representing 75% of the EUR 2.9 million figure.

Counsel added that his client also claims he did not secure his share of the metal salvaged and estimated this at EUR 2.5 million.

(Sourced from www.irishexaminer.com)