Hundreds sign petition over lack of mobile phone coverage at Christmas

Whole swathes of the southwest were left without mobile phone coverage over Christmas, it has emerged.

Hundreds of people signed a petition in south Kerry and handed it to local TD Michael Healy-Rae, who is to raise the matter in the Dáil.

The areas worst hit included Blackwater near Kenmare, and the coastal area in south Kerry from Waterville to Castlecove, Caherdaniel, and Derrynane, alongside all of the Black Valley in the heart of the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks.