ESB urges Supreme Court to find UCC also liable for extensive flood damage

UCC had no emergency plan in place to minimise fluvial flood damage and appeared to have a 'childlike' dependency on others, said counsel for ESB

The ESB has urged the Supreme Court to find University College Cork is liable, along with the ESB, for extensive flood damage to buildings on its campus in 2009. Picture: Denis Minihane

The ESB has urged the Supreme Court to find University College Cork is liable, along with the ESB, for extensive flood damage to buildings on its campus in 2009.

Neil Steen SC, for ESB, disputed arguments made on Monday by Paul Sreenan SC, for UCC, that the college should be found to have no liability in relation to the flood damage.