Farmer helps Clare Post Office to re-open

The post office at Carrigaholt in Co Clare has reopened — but only because a local farmer was able to take the postmaster through flood waters from his home, one of six left cut off by the sea.

Six families have been stranded at Kilcredaun on the Loop Head Peninsula since a sea wall was almost destroyed on Friday last.

The main road into the area has been flooded since the sea rushed hundreds of metres inland, swamping over 250 acres of land and cutting off the families, while the Irish college has also been left inaccessible.