OPW denies responsibility for flooded rail line

The Office of Public Works has said it has no responsibility in relation to the flooding of a rail line in Co Clare despite being blamed for the problem in a report.

The Limerick to Galway rail line at Ballycar near Newmarket on Fergus, which was closed on February 2, will not operate for a further six weeks, Iarnród Éireann has confirmed.

Despite raising the line by 60cm in 2003, services were suspended for seven weeks in February 2008 and for a further eight weeks in 2009 after the railway became submerged in flood waters.