Killorglin water mains network ‘in crisis’

Irish Water (IW) has been asked to give priority funding to a scheme which has an average of two pipe bursts and supply cut-offs per week.

Kerry County Council had to send a water tanker to Killorglin this week to help people affected by the latest outage in the area.

Since 2008, over 600 breaks have been reported in the Mid-Kerry scheme, costing €800,000 to repair.