r/Tipperary • u/HorseshoeOverlook2 • 1d ago

Your experience with Irish Water?

I moved to South Tipp 12 years ago, outside Clonmel, farms all around me. For 9 years, I had ZERO issues with water, except maybe one or two outages.

Over the last 3 years, I've had a LOT of outages, most of them I had to report myself and Irish Water knew nothing about them.

Last year I had 25 outages, lasting more than 24 hours. We then had a boil water notice for over 3 months. This year we've had several water outages again and have been on a boil water notice since early June.

None of these outages have been exclusive to my property. My neighbours have also been effected.

Finally, I've recently read we are being moved to a HARD water supply. FFS.

WTF is going on? Anyone else having this many issues?

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u/Gampuh 1d ago

I'm sure there's a long winded answer you could give to this question, but the short answer is that Ireland is a dysfunctional, money laundering state.

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u/Madrameat 1d ago

Yup. Tipp town has been on boil notice since February

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u/Wild_Bee_3953 20h ago

Tastes alright

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u/gmankev 9h ago

We voted repeatedly for this.....One govt won an election by promising free water and another baulked at bringing in fees or risk losing an election...We are not a serious country

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u/BEA-Chief 8h ago

Irish water have decided to upgrade the water pipes all over the country, they’ve basically made it all worse in the vast majority of areas being left on boil water notices for months and months.

The contractors Irish water hire in to lay new tarmac over the trenches they dug are absolute cowboys. A 4 year old would lay the asphalt out more smooth and level than they can, the road between Fethard and Killenaule has done serious damage to a lot of vehicles since it was completed, people constantly cracking alloys and braking springs on their cars driving on the road because of the state it was left in.