Businesses seek emergency relief funding

BUSINESSES in Cork wrote to the Government last night seeking emergency relief funding after an estimated €10 million damage was caused by the city’s worst flood in over 40 years.

The city’s central business district was completely devastated, said Frank Hanley, president of Cork’s Business Association. “This has affected everybody in the city centre,” Mr Hanley said.

“If this happened in any country of the world, if there was this type of problem, they would get funding. This has to be taken seriously,” he said.