LÉ Orla arrives in port to assist water treatment engineers

THE navy steamed into Cork port to help in the city’s flood relief effort.

The LÉ Orla tied up at the city’s docks and provided teams of specialist naval engineers to help assess the damage to the city’s Lee Road water treatment plant.

The building on the four-acre site, which supplies water to the entire northside and parts of the southside, was swamped by up to 20 feet of water on Friday morning.