One of Cork City’s busiest hotel and restaurant districts is bracing for disruption and water outages during a €20m Irish Water pipe replacement project.

AROUND 20 staff look after the Lee Road waterworks facility in Cork which supplies most of the drinking water to homes and businesses across the city. The old waterworks have been there since the 1700s.

THE head of the ESB has defended the company’s flood warnings issued in the hours before Cork was struck by the worst flood in living memory.