{"id":555339,"date":"2026-07-18T01:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:53:14","slug":"councillor-calls-for-more-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555339\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor calls for more tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerry county councillor has called for more tankers to be made available for people without water due to a burst main this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Fionn\u00e1n Fitzgerald has asked Uisce \u00c9ireann to consider putting more tankers in place, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/burst-water-main-affecting-supply-in-several-parts-of-kerry-491538\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supply disrupted<\/a> in many parts of Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>A burst water main is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.water.ie\/?map=supply-and-service-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affecting supply<\/a> to Kerins Park, Cloghers, Kerries, Fenit, Spa Rd, Caherslee, Knockawadra, Clogherbrien, Blennerville, Hare Street, Ardfert, Firies, Flemby, Ballyseedy, Currans, Castlemaine, Castleisland, Kilsarkin and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Water tankers are available from 6pm in Fenit by the playground, at the RSA office on Spa Road in Tralee, and at Desmonds GAA Club in Castleisland.<\/p>\n<p>Uisce \u00c9ireann is again advising people to boil water taken from one of its tankers before consumption as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Works to repair the burst water main began at 1:25pm today and are expected to continue until midday tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Fionn\u00e1n Fitzgerald has asked Uisce \u00c9ireann for a tanker to be made available in Firies.<\/p>\n<p>He says the tanker in Castleisland is too far for Firies and many other areas to serve all the people affected.<\/p>\n<p>He has asked the utility to consider more water tanks be put in place throughout the general area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nighttime water restrictions will be in place on the Listowel Regional Public Water Supply Scheme from 12pm until 8am tomorrow morning. As a result customers in Listowel Town ,Moyvane,Knockanure, Lisselton, Ballyduff and surrounding areas may experience lower water pressure or temporary disruptions to supply while these measures are in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry county councillor has called for more tankers to be made available for people without water due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,176017,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-555339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tankers","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555339","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=555339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}