Funding for road repairs, farmers

Local authorities are to receive €106m in funding to help repair flood-damaged roads, bridges, and culverts.

Separately, a scheme to help farmers in areas that were most severely affected by the recent floods has been announced by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

Reacting, farming bodies called on assessment and payments to be made quickly as farmers have seen fodder destroyed, land submerged by water, and livestock lost.