Massive storm gates to give Cape Clear island the all-clear

Massive storm gates will be installed within weeks to protect an island community which was battered by storms last year.

Engineers have spent the last three months working on the €4.3m automated hydraulic storm gate project at the mouth of the North Harbour on Cape Clear, Ireland’s most southerly island, about 10km off Cork.

The firm successfully towed and installed a contractor-designed, 1,000-tonne, reinforced concrete lock chamber for the new storm gates from its casting basin in Verolme Dry Dock in Cork Harbour some 100km to the island last September.