The water supply in parts of Cork will be shut down tonight, 27 June, as essential maintenance and repair work is being carried out.

Water for parts of the the city supplied from the Cork Lower Reservoir will be shut down from 11pm until around 7am on Wednesday, 28 June.

The supply interruption will affect approximately 35,000 people in Cork city centre and surrounding areas.

The work is necessary in order to carry out urgent repairs on a section of old water main which has been identified as being in poor condition and at risk of bursting. A similar burst on a different section of pipe last week resulted in water outages for the city centre and surrounding areas for a number of hours during the day.

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Jim Fitzgerald, Irish Water's Operations Lead for Cork said: "We would like to apologise to our customers in Cork for any inconvenience that may be caused as a result of this shut down in supply. Our priority in carrying out this essential work is to keep any disruption to residents and businesses to an absolute minimum. However, due to the nature of the repairs, it will be necessary to shut off the water supply from the lower reservoir while the repair work is taking place. We expect that the water supply should be fully restored to all residents by 7am in the morning."

(CD/MH)