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Michael Moynihan: Uisce Éireann’s silence on Cork’s water crisis is an insult to the public

Uisce Éireann faces mounting criticism for refusing to address Cork’s ongoing water crisis and councillors' demands for accountability
Michael Moynihan: Uisce Éireann’s silence on Cork’s water crisis is an insult to the public

Brown water in Ballyvolane, Cork. It is hard to believe that a community in the middle of the second-largest city in the country cant be provided with clean, drinkable water.

One of your columnist’s favourite comfort reads is a classic from the mid-sixties, Brown Lord Of The Mountain by Walter Macken.

A quick synopsis: Donn Donnshleibhe returns to his remote village in the west of Ireland after the Second World War and tries to modernise the place. Shenanigans ensue.

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