Flooding Fallout: Request for €11.76m in emergency aid to fix Cork’s storm-damaged roads

Cork County Council chief executive Tim Lucey has sent a letter to the Department of Transport seeking €11.76m in emergency funding to fix roads damaged by Storm Frank.

However, the real figure for damage will be far higher, as this total doesn’t include damage to the county’s national roads, pier, harbours and local authority houses hit by the deluge on December 29/30.

There are also a number of areas where roads remain submerged and council engineers have been unable to inspect the damage caused to them.