A District Court decision in favour of AWD Waste Solutions, the company of Irish and Lions rugby star Shane Byrne and his codirector father William, has been overturned by the Circuit Civil Court.
The council in June 2021 had refused AWD’s application for a permit on grounds it was not a fit and proper entity, quoting earlier convictions against the Byrnes as directors of AWD for offences contrary to the Waste Management Act. Judge Simon McAleese, sitting in the Midland Circuit, said the reason given for the refusal had stated: “Shane Byrne and William Byrne, directors of AWD Solutions trading as AWD Waste Solutions, had not met the ‘fit and proper’ criteria having been convicted at Arklow District Court of offences contrary to the Waste Management Act at Killacloran, Aughrim in February 2012.”