Divers repair pipe supplying water to Sherkin

Specialist divers were brought in to repair a broken pipe which supplies water to islanders living off the south-west coast.

A Cork County Council spokesman it was believed that the pipe, which brings water from Skibbereen to Sherkin Island, was severed by a vessel.

“The [underwater] pipe is situated in a narrow, shallow channel and we think it may have been damaged by a passing vessel,” the council spokesman said.