Severe weather alert system to be piloted by council

A new high-speed alert system is to be piloted in Co Cork within weeks which will provide people with specific information about severe weather alerts, road closures, travel delays and water-off or boil water notices in their own areas.

Cork County Council officials have been in talks with a number of service providers in recent months to launch the emergency alerts though electronic media.

The local authority says it has now decided on a six-month trial of the technology with the MapAlerter system.