AS homes were in evacuated in Ennis during last November’s flooding, a flooding expert warned Clare County Council last November that a number of other housing estates below a certain level in the Ennis area “will almost certainly be in trouble and unlikely to be protectable” from flooding.

SENIOR County Council planners will be in Mallow, Co Cork, tonight to address concerns about the speed of housing developments, difficulties in securing planning for one-off houses and the lack of community amenities.