Skibb sets up national forum to help flood-risk communities

A TOWN ravaged by last year’s winter floods is setting up a national body to help and lobby for flood-risk communities.

The Skibbereen Floods Committee in west Cork said it hopes the new National Flood Forum, which will be launched next month, will give a “national voice” to other communities in a similar situation, and will help them cut through red-tape and state bureaucracy to get the right information.

They have now invited people from around the country to contact them.