Extended family pulls together to stave off crisis following floods

One of the most difficult moments during the flooding crisis for Geraldine Quinlivan was when her mother, Nora, asked her: “And how is my little home?”

Nora Mason aged 86, left the old family home at Springfield, Clonlara, after it was flooded in the 2009 deluge and never returned.

She now is cared for at St Michael’s nursing home in Caherconlish.