Cork's three street cleaning machines out of action as Brexit delays spare parts

Cork Business Association president has offered to fly to England to collect the parts

It follows confirmation from City Hall over the weekend that all three of its mechanical street cleaning machines have developed faults and are off the road — one since March, one for the last two weeks, and the other since last Tuesday. Picture: Denis Minihane

The president of the Cork Business Association (CBA) has offered to fly to England to collect spare parts after it emerged that the city’s entire fleet of mechanical street cleaning machines has broken down and Brexit has delayed repairs.

Retailer Kevin Herlihy made the offer after Cork City Council blamed post-Brexit customs issues for the delays in securing the parts from the UK. One of the machines has been off the road for almost four months.