Fermoy property owners in limbo over flood system failure

The delay in publishing the OPW report is causing "undue financial hardship" on the businesses who are looking to get compensation.

The flood barriers erected on Thomas Kent Bridge over the Blackwater blocking off flooding to Brian Boru Square Fermoy, Co Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

A number of property owners in a North Cork town have not been able to seek compensation for a 'systems failure' which caused flood damage nearly a year ago, as they are still awaiting a report from the Office of Public Works (OPW) on how it happened and who is responsible.

Several county councillors representing the Fermoy area won support from their colleagues in the council's Northern Division to write to the OPW demanding that it finalise its report into what went wrong with the flood protection measures in Fermoy on February 24, 2021.