As the €700 million Irish poultry industry faces one potential existential crisis with the latest deadly avian influenza making its way to the border counties where the industry is concentrated, another crisis looms in the background.    A case snaking its way through the court system has the potential to cause an equally devastating impact, and raises questions about the perpetual problem of how farms deal with poultry litter as animal numbers continue to grow. The Supreme Court has given permission to Peter Sweetman, a frequent environmental litigant, to bring a case before it seeking an order of certiorari to quash…

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