PICS: Severe weather alert in place as floods wreak havoc

A severe weather alert remains in place today after torrential rain destroyed roads and flooding cut off part of the Mizen peninsula in West Cork yesterday.

Flooding was so severe in the Ahakista area that an ambulance couldn’t reach a man who had suffered a severe crushed hand injury around 6.30pm.

The coastguard helicopter from Waterford, Rescue 117, was tasked to airlift the man to Cork Airport, from where he was transferred by road to Cork University Hospital.