No refunds to business over city water outage

Irish Water have ruled out discounts or refunds for hundreds of business customers affected by a major outage in Cork which left 40,000 people without water.

The company said the issue of discounts or refunds does not arise in this case because a boil water notice was not imposed and supply was restored to all customers within 12 hours.

The utility was responding to calls from the Cork Business Association (CBA) following the major interruption in supply across the city on Wednesday, which forced many businesses to close for several hours.