Double trouble for grandmother in wheelchair

A WHEELCHAIR-USER grandmother in her 80s was at the centre of two dramatic rescues from flooded houses.

She is recovering in a Limerick hotel with her grandchildren.

Nora Mason, had to be moved from her old home in Springfield, Clonlara, on the outskirts of the city three days ago as efforts to keep flood waters from the Shannon at bay failed. But in the early hours of yesterday another major rescue operation had to be put in place to move her from her daughter’s house, nearby, as the flood waters rose.