Water pipes as thin as tissue have Cork villagers at wits end
Hundreds of homes in Glanworth were left without a supply for several days and had to rely on buying bottled water or queuing up at tankers
Locals residents Mary Quinn-Maher, Cllr Frank O Flynn, Viv O Donnell of O Donnells Bar, Deirdre Kelly, Marian and Claire O Callaghan and Pauline O Dwyer collecting water from the water tanker on main street Glanworth in Co. Cork Picture: Eddie O Hare
Wed, 20 Jan, 2021 - 09:31
Sean O’Riordan
As if facing Covid-19 restrictions was not bad enough, frontline workers, householders, businesses, and farmers in a North Cork village are at their wits end due to repeated breakdowns of their water supply.
County councillors have been told it is unlikely that funding will be made available for upgrading two narrow sections of the sections of the N73 Mitchelstown to Mallow.
Last October dozens of lorries took part in a slow drive along a stretch of the N73 to highlight the dangerous condition of the road at Clogher Cross and Annakisha South, which at time was described by Cllr Frank Roche as an accident waiting to happen.
Cllr Roche (Ind) said that since being elected to the authority he had been inundated with calls from hauliers about the damage caused to trucks along the narrow stretches of road.