OPPONENTS of a plan to extract water from the River Shannon to guarantee future supplies for the greater Dublin region claim the project is “ill-considered” and “risky in the extreme”.

A WIDE-RANGING investigation into the November floods crisis may not make specific concrete conclusions on who is to blame for the €100 million damage caused to Cork city.

Cork's city manager Joe Gavin has rejected claims that he blamed the ESB for the devastating floods which hit the city last November.