Dead animals spark health scare

HUNDREDS of people in West Cork were forced to boil their water yesterday after dead animals were found rotting in the river that supplies water to their town.

Cork County Council received a report on Saturday of a dead sheep in the River Clashduff on the Beara peninsula, about a mile upstream from the intake for Adrigole’s water supply.

Council officials, including a veterinary officer, went to the site near the scenic Healy Pass road, and found one dead sheep in the water and evidence of other carcasses nearby.