Dursey Island cable car replacement hit by delay

TOURISTS will have to wait until August before they can use Ireland’s only cable car to access an island off the south-west coast.

The seven permanent residents of Dursey Island, off the coast of Cork, have to use a boat to get on and off the island because the cable car is out of action.

Cork County Council spent €35,000 on a replacement cable car for the service, which was officially opened by Jack Lynch when he was Taoiseach in 1969.