Water pipes as 'thin as tissue' have Cork villagers at wits end 

Hundreds of homes in Glanworth were left without a supply for several days and had to rely on buying bottled water or queuing up at tankers

Locals residents Mary Quinn-Maher, Cllr Frank O'Flynn, Viv O'Donnell of O'Donnells Bar, Deirdre Kelly, Marian and Claire O'Callaghan and Pauline O'Dwyer collecting water from the water tanker on main street Glanworth in Co. Cork Picture: Eddie O'Hare

As if facing Covid-19 restrictions was not bad enough, frontline workers, householders, businesses, and farmers in a North Cork village are at their wits' end due to repeated breakdowns of their water supply.

The plight of people living in Glanworth prompted one of Cork County Council's most senior officials to launch an unprecedented broadside to Irish Water after hundreds of homes were left without a supply for several days and had to rely on buying bottled water or queuing up at tankers.