Council expands refuse service

PEOPLE who lost out as refuse contractors collapsed in West Cork, or who have never had a proper collection, could be in for good news.

Cork County Council is to buy four refuse collection trucks, including a small one to tackle narrow roads.

Jerome O’Sullivan, the council’s official in charge of waste collection in the region, said that since a private company had closed at the end of March, the council had taken up the slack around Glengarriff and put around 100 more customers on its route.