Progress on flood defences should be one positive Cork businesses can take from 2020

Norrie Eams dealing with the flooding at O’Brien.’s sandwich bar on Winthrop Street, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Businesses in Cork are once again mopping floors and throwing out damaged stock as they count the costs of yet another flood event.

For many of the traders on Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street, some of whom have operated there for decades, yesterday was not the first time they have been impacted in such a way.