Country braces for deluge after freak flood

Ireland is bracing for flash floods after Met Éireann issued localised flood alerts and small craft warnings last night.

It came as East Cork mopped up after a freak “monster-rain” downpour on Tuesday night.

Business owners in Midleton, Castlemartyr, and Youghal were counting the cost yesterday of a cloud-burst deluge which dumped a day’s worth of rain on the region in just over an hour on Tuesday.