A Longford councillor has branded faults to electricity supply in Granard as 'unacceptable'. Newly elected councillor and Granard postmaster Pádraig McNamara says the issue has been raised numerous times by residents in recent weeks. A lightning strike on May 30th caused damage to the infrastructure in the area which the ESB say has now been fully resolved
In a statement to Shannonside FM, ESB networks also confirmed that 1,200 customers were affected by a medium voltage line fault in Finea on June 18th In response to this fault, essential maintenance is due to be carried out in July which they say will bring increased reliability to the network. Speaking to Shannonside news, Councillor Pádraig McNamara says the outages have an adverse affect on the older population:
