Cork school that lost gym roof in storm planning to begin repairs in March

The cost of Storm Ophelia is still being counted by students and a local community whose sports hall lost its roof in scenes broadcast around the world.

Douglas Community School principal Jim Long hopes to get work underway by March and to have the sports hall ready to start fitting out again by June, ready for returning students in the autumn.

The lifting of the roof by the hurricane-like winds that hit Cork on the morning of October 6 was caught on camera by a neighbour in the southside suburb in a video that went viral.