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UK Engineers Assess Flood Damage; Ireland Also Hit Bloomberg Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Engineers are conducting safety inspections on 1800 bridges in northwestern England following the region's worst floods on record, while in...
Bandon, Ireland; November 22. Image via Getty ] A woman cleans up the inside of her pub, The Plunket Inn, after flood waters destroyed the properties in Bandon, some 30kms from Cork, on November 22, 2009. Water supplies to over...
The leader of one the country's largest public service unions has acknowledged that tomorrow's nationwide strike by up to 250,000 state employees will cause hardship to those who depend most on public services. He said that the...
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen is visiting the worst affected areas in the flooding crisis today. Mr Cowen will meet people in Cork, Clonmel, Ennis, Gort and Ballinasloe to witness the devastation first-hand. Boil water notices are...
By Noel Baker and Kathryn Hayes Monday, November 23, 2009 LARGE parts of the rail and road network will remain closed this morning while the country counts the cost of the torrential flooding which has devastated thousands of...
By Shaun Connolly and Eoin English Monday, November 23, 2009 PUBLIC service unions in Cork have called off their planned strike to continue emergency work in flood devastated areas. Members of SIPTU,IMPACT and the TEEU moved to...
By Brian O’Mahony Monday, November 23, 2009 A NEW shop will be opened at 17 Opera Lane, the new retail district in the heart of Cork city next Saturday by the country’s only Apple premium reseller Compu b. Resellers are iPod...
By Eoin English Monday, November 23, 2009 HUNDREDS of tonnes of rock armour have been used to plug a huge gap where flood waters breached Cork city’s quay walls. City council engineers supervised an operation between 3am and...
By Dan Buckley Monday, November 23, 2009 "WHERE did you get that child?""I got it in Mallow Lane.""How much did you pay?""I got the child at a bargain rate of three pence a day.""You were badly caught. Sure, I could have given...
IT has been one of the wettest Novembers since records began and the cost of repairing the damage caused by widespread flooding could reach €300m. But the events of the last week are only a taste of things to come.
