Call for urgent action on Mallow footpaths

Councillor says pensioners were injured after falling on footpaths

Mallow General Hospital. Fine Gael councillor Liam Madden told a meeting of the Kanturk/Mallow Municipal District Council that he knew of two pensioners who were so badly injured that they required hospital treatment. Picture: Dan Linehan

Elderly people are ending up in hospital after falls on the main street of a North Cork town because footpaths are in such a dire state, Cork County Council has been told. 

Councillors representing the Mallow area are demanding urgent action to repair the broken and crumbling footpaths.