Mobile phone company faces court action in attempt to remove mast

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside the County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

Carrying placards that asked the local authority to protect its people, the protesters said they were deeply concerned about the continuing operation of the Meteor mobile phone mast at New Square, Mitchelstown.

While health concerns were their major priority, the protesters added that many of them had been unable to receive RTÉ TV signals since the mast became operational at the end of last January. The mast is placed on Mrs Quinn’s charity shop.