'Banging and clattering' from loose manhole covers a serious health and safety issue in Cork

Fianna Fáil councillor Joe Carroll said many of his constituents in West Cork were continually complaining they could not sleep at night because of the noise from the 'banging and clattering' caused when vehicles drive over loose manhole covers. Picture: Andrew Harris

The number of broken, subsiding, and rattling manhole covers has become such a serious health and safety problem in Co Cork that the local authority is to raise it with utility companies at a national forum.

The lack of proper maintenance and repairs is causing an increase in pedestrians getting trip injuries, damage to cars and keeping householders awake at night when trucks rattle over them.