monitoring results and organising citizen sewage reports. She further researched treatment options and lobbied for a tertiary treatment plant. She also acted to halt illegal cockle dredging in Waterford estuary with both media and Senate support. She exposed wrecking of Kilmuckridge-Tinnaberna Sandhills and together with other Coastwatchers halted the cattle storage and pollution. A restoration order now in place is just being implemented. In 2014 Dubsky and her husband Paul were refused planning permission to turn part of their home into an "eco-education centre," on the grounds it could cause pollution. In reaching its decision, on an appeal by Dublin-based holiday home owners, the planning board overruled both the local authority and its own inspector, noting the area as being at very high risk from domestic sewage pollution. "The board considered that the proposed development, in close proximity to a stream and to bathing waters, to a proposed drain and to other dwellings, would be prejudicial to public health" it said. Court cases Dubsky took a number of court cases as an individual and as part of Coastwatch. These include a Supreme Court decision that government must give reasons for opinions (Boyne estuary habitat restoration) and High Court injunctive relief to halt creosote sludge dumping in Waterford Port. Dubsky instigated and persisted with EC complaints which ended in the European Court of Justice and belatedly resulted in improvements to landfill sites, provision of compensatory habitat and restoration of wetlands. Politics She withdrew from the Seanad Election of 2011 due to an oversight in official registration of her Irish citizenship over forty years previously, which could not be rectified in time for the beginning of the election. She contested the 2019 Wexford by-election for the Green Party (Ireland), for the seat left vacant by Mick Wallace after he was elected to the European Parliament, but was not elected. Awards and achievements Honorary Fellow of the Irish Hotel and Catering Industry (since 2000) Designed the Biodiversity and EU enlargement monument, erected in Malahide Castle, 2004 Environmental Merit Award 2007 from the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (Ireland branch) Drafted the Wexford Wetlands county inventory with Wexford County Council, as first inventory in Ireland Personal life As of 2019, Dubsky lives in Ballymoney, Co. Wexford, with her husband Paul. They have a daughter and three sons - Julia, Stephan, Paul and Eoin. References External links Coastwatch 1954 births German emigrants to