COASTAL areas have been put on flood alert with high tides, gales and heavy rain forecast this weekend.

Some residents in the Middle Parish in Cork chose to leave their homes last night in fear that there would be a repeat of the events of November 19.

KYRLS Quay in Cork suffered its worst flooding in almost a year last night as it emerged that EU scientists knew Ireland would suffer extensive river flooding five days before last November’s devastation but declined to disclose this information.