Cork residents face water outages of up to 10 days over ageing pipes

Niall Heal, the council's divisional manager for North Cork, said the local authority will write to Uisce Éireann urging it to take action

Fianna Fáil councillor Ian Doyle and other councillors recently attended a meeting organised by angry locals who say they are fed up with repeated outages in the general Freemount, Dromina, and Millford areas. Picture: iStock

Scores of people have been left without water for up to 10 days at a time in an area of North Cork, because Uisce Éireann is not replacing ageing mains pipes which keep breaking.

Fianna Fáil councillor Ian Doyle said many mains pipes serving parts of water supply system supplied from Freemount are decaying, and the utility urgently needs to invest in replacing them.