Hands off our community, says West Cork alliance

Hands off rural communities — that’s the message the West Cork Communities Alliance wants to deliver to Government.

The alliance, a watchdog voluntary body, insists the Government cannot continue to asset-strip local amenities.

Plans to restructure locally run rural bus services and post offices, along with the withdrawal of nighttime A&E services at the region’s only acute hospital, do not augur well for the future of West Cork, organisers of a public meeting say.