A VICTIM of last year’s winter flooding, Susan Walsh, yesterday welcomed an announcement that the Office of Public Works (OPW) is to spend €135,000 aimed at preventing further flooding in Ennis, Co Clare.

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.

THE Irish Red Cross has raised over €300,000 for its flood relief operations.

THE schoolgirl who died in a road accident at the weekend was one of seven teenagers packed into a tiny Volkswagen Polo, gardaí confirmed yesterday.

A man has been killed in a road accident in Co Antrim.