Skibbereen residents show anger over flood defence works delay

Cahalane’s Bar proprietor James Cahalane gets help from Donie Hurley and Ger Carey of The Horse and Hound Bar as the community pitched in for cleanup operation. Picture: Larry Cummins

A town hit by flash flooding during Storm Ellen has called for answers and action after it emerged that work to a culvert which could have eased the flooding was postponed hours earlier.

As the Taoiseach visited Skibbereen in West Cork to survey the damage, flood victims described as "too little, too later" the installation yesterday of a trash screen over the culvert at The Cutting area of the town.