Plea to save isolated valley’s only public phone

A PLEA to leave the only public phone kiosk in the remote Black Valley, deep in the Kerry mountains, has been made to Eircom by Councillor Michael Healy Rae.

The phone is one of 129 in Kerry which Eircom plans to disconnect along with more than 2,000 countrywide.

But Mr Healy-Rae insisted it was a mistake to take away an important piece of infrastructure from communities.