Protesters picket County Hall as Meteor defies council over phone mast

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside 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.

Protesters picket County Hall as Meteor defies council over phone mast

Carrying placards which 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, in 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.

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