{"id":177375,"date":"2025-12-05T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:41:11","slug":"traffic-disruptions-expected-as-cork-city-water-outage-to-impact-hundreds-of-leesiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177375\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic disruptions expected as Cork city water outage to impact hundreds of Leesiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning of more discolouration issues too\"UisceUisce \u00c9ireann workers (stock)<\/p>\n

Homes on Cork city<\/a>‘s Northside will be impacted by a water outage tomorrow as Uisce \u00c9ireann carries out essential repair works.<\/p>\n

The repairs on Wellington Road will take place from 8am-4pm on Saturday 6th December. A road closure and diversions will be in place during this time – local and emergency access will always be maintained. The works may cause supply disruptions in the following areas:<\/p>\n

Wellington Road From Military Hill to St LukesSt Lukes Cross AreaBallyhooley New Road as far as Dillions CrossMiddle Glanmire RoadLovers WalkTrafalgar Hill<\/p>\n

Homeowners are also warned that once works are finished, they may see an increase in water discolouration – an issue that many homes on the Northside are all too familiar with<\/a>. A spokesperson for Uisce \u00c9ireann said: “As water returns, customers may experience some short-term discolouration. In the event of discolouration, running the cold kitchen tap for several minutes will usually restore the water to a clear colour.”<\/p>\n

Uisce \u00c9ireann\u2019s Operations Manager, James Goulding, said: “We understand the inconvenience caused by an interruption to supply, particularly on a weekend. Every effort will be made to limit the impact of these essential works, and we would like to thank the community in advance for their patience and co-operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This update comes as legal action on Cork city water issues<\/a> being taken by an environmental campaign group, on behalf of local residents, is moving forward. In a case taken by Friends of the Irish Environment (FOIE), leading public health specialist, Professor Gabriel Scally, has voiced his grave concerns about water quality issues in Cork.<\/p>\n

Professor Scally is a very prominent public health expert who was a key advisor to the UK Government during the Covid-19 pandemic and is a former director of the World Health Organisation. In an affidavit given as part of the case taken by the FOIE, Professor Scally states that recent water test samples taken by Uisce \u00c9ireann in Cork show “urgent action is required on public health grounds,” due to reoccurring high levels of manganese in the drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning of more discolouration issues tooUisce \u00c9ireann workers (stock) Homes on Cork city‘s Northside will be impacted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14641,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-177375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-city","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}