East Cork flood defence plan may run until 2018

Details of a proposed €11m plan to combat flooding in East Cork will include the building of walls and embankments.

Glanmire, Midleton, and Ballinacurra have suffered repeated flooding in recent years, during which scores of houses and businesses have been damaged to the tune of millions of euro.

It is expected that the works in these three areas will be completed by around 2017/18.