€1m flood wall divides community

LIMERICK’S €1 million retainer wall by Clancy’s Strand is a divisive issue.

Doubting it will serve its purpose to stop them being flooded yet again, residents have dubbed the Shannonside construction their Berlin Wall.

“This has been going on for a long time,” said poll-topping Mayor Michael Hourigan yesterday of the controversy over efforts to combat the local flooding.