Cork County Council has made a third application to the Government for emergency funds to repair flood-hit areas.

Hundreds of farmers are still waiting for emergency flood relief funding that was promised in the wake of Storm Desmond.

Environment Minister Alan Kelly’s department has failed to pay almost €6.5m in emergency funding to local authorities for repairs and the clean-up of flood-hit areas.

If you thought the weather couldn’t get much worse than the winter just gone by, think again. New research has found extreme seasonal conditions will be the “new-normal” by the end of this century.

A new engineering survey shows that two in five people blame building on flood plains for the country's failure to deal with severe weather.

Cork Chamber has welcomed news that one of the country’s leading insurance companies will look at reinsuring flood victims after its representatives came to view flood defences in Co Cork.

Work will start next week on an interim plan to reduce the flood risk in a Cork town which was hit by repeated flooding in recent weeks.

Plans will have to be revisited for thousands of proposed new homes in Co Cork after it emerged that areas designated for future development were flooded during the winter storms.

Local authorities are to receive €106m in funding to help repair flood-damaged roads, bridges, and culverts.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny failed to meet insurers to force them to compensate flood victims because he was “promoting” Ireland’s economic recovery while on expensive visits to Britain and Switzerland.

€106m is being allocated to repair damage to transport infrastructure from the recent severe weather.

Environment Minister Alan Kelly is considering placing a levy on insurers after they refused to budge on the issue of flood insurance.

Cork County Council chief executive Tim Lucey has sent a letter to the Department of Transport seeking €11.76m in emergency funding to fix roads damaged by Storm Frank.

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Insurers have refused to budge on a government request to provide flood insurance for areas where movable defences have already been constructed.

The Government has agreed the terms of reference for the River Shannon Flood Risk Co-ordination group.

I refer to yesterday’s article relating to flood damage assistance for farmers. Your readers may have gotten the mistaken impression that there has been delay in the response to the severe flooding events of December 2015 and January 2016 on the part of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

There are fresh flood fears emerging, with heavy rain sweeping the country last night and most likely today.

National forecaster Met Éireann has issued three weather warnings today.

Flooding victims coping with damaged homes will not be allowed revalue their homes for lower property taxes, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed.

Senior Cork County Council officials are trying to get Inland Fisheries Ireland to alter its decision not to allow dredging of the rivers in Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, and Glanmire to go ahead.

Junior Minister Simon Harris has denied claims by the opposition that the budget for flood defences is €8.7m less this year than was allocated in 2015.

All roads in Springfield, Clonlara are now passable after weeks of flooding.

There have been calls today for funds to be made available to all families who have been impacted by recent flooding.

Council officials have been told they will have to revisit plans for two major developments in East Cork, as large sections of the land earmarked for 5,000 houses, schools, and retail centres were hit with serious flooding by Storm Frank.

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.