Flooding crisis: ‘The majority of people here have no insurance’

Mary Hogan dropped her six-year-old grandchild from an upstairs window into the arms of a waiting fireman after the Shannon burst through her home.

It was 7am when the flood struck.

Fighting back tears she recalled the moment she and her grandchild, wearing only their pyjamas, clung to the side of a rescue boat on Oliver Plunkett St, in St Mary’s Park, Limerick.