Fire crews prevent potential blaze at Cork's Mercy hospital

A shower curtain had caught alight, and crews were quickly able to put it out.

Emergency services are currently at the scene of a fire at the Mercy Hospital.

Crews from Cork’s fire service managed to avert a crisis when they stopped a potential blaze at one of Cork’s busiest hospitals.

Fresh from the fallout from one of the worst cybersecurity crisis in the history of the State, weary staff and patients at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) Cork could have been forgiven for wondering if things were about to get a whole lot worse on Tuesday night.