Birgit Eder News Today

2023 HAS been another incredibly busy year in West Cork, with plenty of highs and lows experienced across the community and all of it reported on in the pages of this newspaper.Jackie Keogh, Kieran O’Mahony, Martin Claffey and Siobhán Cronin have compiled a news review of the

Goleen resident Birgit Eder was shocked to receive a bill for over €2,000 for the fire crews who helped combat a gorse fire near her home recently. But it’s not just the financial cost that angers her. It’s the health and environmental costs, too.THIS year’s February gors

A BALLYDEHOB restaurant owner is the latest person to have received a bill from Cork County Council after calling 999 for assistance during the recent gorse fires that threatened large areas Leo Bolger, of Bally Bia, was invoiced for €6,116 for his call to emergency services o

A SECOND homeowner has come forward to express anger at having been invoiced for over €2,000 after calling 999 for the fire service during the recent gorse fires.David Roche, who lives at Kealties on the Sheep’s Head, received a bill for €2,024 after the caretaker at his pr

A West Cork restaurant owner is refusing to pay a bill of more than €6,000, sent to him by Cork County Council, for fire services after a gorse fire ...

Goleen resident shocked at fee for dialling 999 to get help to save her home from the flamesA GOLEEN resident who called the fire service during the recent gorse fires because her home was in danger, has been landed with a bill of over €2,400.Birgit Eder says she is furious bec