Flood relocation: ‘It’s only bricks and mortar but it’s your home’

Miley Cotter has been unable to get insurance for his home in Co Cork ever since it was so badly flooded over a year ago that he and his family had to move out for six months.

The Office of Public Works doesn’t have any flood relief plans for the area either and this means flooding has rendered his home, where he reared his three children, worthless as there is every likelihood that this part of Clasharinka, near Castlemartyr, will flood again.

Miley, who has lived in the locality for 60 years, has taken a keen interest in the OPW’s plans to offer a flooding relocation package to an estimated 80-100 householders nationwide.