President Higgins: Family businesses display ‘best of Irishness’

The President saluted the resilience, backbone, and courage of the family-run businesses of Cork City centre during a walkabout yesterday of the areas worst hit by last week’s double flood.

Michael D Higgins also expressed a wish to see urgent action to prevent future flooding in the city.

“In Cork, you have so many family businesses who have kept the doors open in difficult economic times, and to be faced with this next challenge was so tough,” he said.