Future of country’s only cable car in jeopardy

The future of the country’s only cable car is in jeopardy because Cork County Council cannot afford the substantial investment needed to bring it up to required standards.

The cost is reportedly in excess of €1m to repair the weather-beaten steel towers of the Dursey Island cable car and replace steel cables.

Opened in 1969 by then taoiseach Jack Lynch, the cable car traverses the 374m of the treacherous waters of the Dursey Sound that separates the island from the tip of the Beara peninsula.