Swathes of city ‘can no longer be insured’

Large parts of Cork City are now “uninsurable” due to the spate of flooding incidents in recent years — the most recent of which occurred just over a week ago.

A Cork City Council review of the flood said the concentrated nature of the deluge was “unpredictable and unprecedented”.

The report said the inability of watercourses to deal with prolonged intense rainfall was a primary cause of the widespread flooding.