Munster homes and businesses brace for impact of boil water notices

Strikes are interrupting safe water supply on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Unite says workers feel forced to strike by a continued lack of meaningful engagement by local authorities and their representative body, the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) on water service workers’ employment terms when they move from local authorities to Uisce Éireann. File picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Businesses across Munster are bracing for potentially huge disruption as some 100,000 premises are put on a boil water notice.

Strikes are interrupting safe water supply to homes and businesses on Thursday and Friday, having begun on Wednesday, leading to boil water notices in parts of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, which may last several days.