Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\nHe said that keeping water in taps should be a “baseline responsibility for Government” and called on the minister to address what he called an “ongoing crisis”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Uisce \u00c9ireann said, “As part of our regular investigations, an operative attended the Ballivor area earlier today and was informed that the local school had a normal water supply at that time. <\/p>\n
“We are following up on new reports of issues this afternoon. Uisce \u00c9ireann actively follows up on all no water calls and are continuing to do so,” it added. <\/p>\n
Uisce \u00c9ireann also said that upgrade works are planned, which will include a water storage upgrade at Ballivor. <\/p>\n
“Our contractor will commence compound set up in the week commencing 8 June, with the main upgrade works due to begin on week commencing 22 June,” it said. <\/p>\n
“Water mains improvement works are also being planned and, once Uisce \u00c9ireann obtains the required licence for these works to proceed, we will advise customers of the timeline,” it added.<\/p>\n
The situation in Ballivor was raised on RT\u00c9’s Liveline yesterday, while discussions about water outages and issues in other parts of Co Meath and elsewhere in the country were raised on the programme today.<\/p>\n
Clonard resident Liz Broderick voiced her frustration, saying that she and her young family is currently three days without water.<\/p>\n
She said there have been 184 water outages in her area since March 2024 and that there was an issue with a local pumphouse failing.<\/p>\n
Ms Broderick said residents were picking up the phone daily to alert Uisce \u00c9ireann to the problems.<\/p>\n
“I just feel like we are not prioritised,” she said.<\/p>\n
Niamh Halpenny from north Meath said that they recently went without water for nine days, including over the May Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
She said that a lack of engagement and communication with Uisce \u00c9ireann was frustrating, and at one time, she was ringing them three times a day.<\/p>\n
Gerry Devins from Skryne said that he believed these issues across the system needed to be handled at a Government level.<\/p>\n
Mr Devins said that his area is affected by low pressure and described it as an “absolute disaster”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a Co Meath village have been left without water for several days during the hottest week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}