Work to start next week on interim Bandon flood plan

Work will start next week on an interim plan to reduce the flood risk in a Cork town which was hit by repeated flooding in recent weeks.

Following those incidents in Bandon, the county council decided it would carry out some works to negate further risk prior to the completion of major flood relief works by the OPW.

Council chief executive Tim Lucey, county engineer David Keane, and West Cork divisional manager Clodagh Henahan met councillors yesterday to outline the planned works.