Hospital left without water over pipe breaks

Multiple breaks in a mains pipe that left patients at a community hospital in Cork without water on several occasions have been described “as a national disgrace which wouldn’t happen in Outer Mongolia”.

Senior engineers from Cork County Council have promised to try and seek a solution to the problem which has plagued the 72-patient Fermoy Community Hospital since October.

The local authority submitted the project to the Department of the Environment for grant aid last March as one of six mains in North Cork in need of urgent replacement.