Local authority under fire over 5-month-long boil water notice

Cork County Council has been accused of not doing enough to help 23 householders who have had to boil their drinking water for the past five months.

In late September last, the local authority discovered that a water scheme supplying householders at Gortnaskehy at Araglin was contaminated with E coli bacteria.

After consulting with the HSE, the council issued a boil water notice which remains in place.