‘My house is done up, but am I going to be out again this Christmas?’

PEOPLE living in one of the city’s worst affected flood zones are lying awake at night in fear that their homes will flood again.

Sean O’Connell, the chairman of the Middle Parish Community Association, said several residents, especially the elderly, who live in local authority homes in the Grattan Street area, refused to sleep during the city’s recent high tide flood alert.

“These people were out of their homes for up to three months after last November’s flood,” he said while standing in the city centre community hall, which was also badly damaged.