County Galway home with 21 times acceptable level of radon

The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland discovered the cancer-causing gas at a home in Ballymoe.Radon is the second biggest cause of lung cancer after smoking and is directly linked to more than 200 lung cancer deaths in Ireland each year.In Galway, 462 tests for radon gas were completed in the past year and a half and one in four were found to be above the acceptable level.Apart from the home in Ballymoe, two other homes in Ballindooley and Castlegar were found with 11 times the acceptable level of radon.Fifteen homes, 3 in Claregalway, 3 in Oughterard and one in Bushypark, Castlegar, Clarenbridge, Gort, Headford, Kinvara, Oranmore, Roscam and Salthill all had almost ten times too much radon.