Climate change will turn people in Ireland into migrants, says junior minister

Patrick O'Donovan predicts that people will have to leave their homes because of the effects of climate change saying that we need to stop treating it as a problem that is in the distant future.

Cork is "going around on a merry-go-round of planning", said Patrick O'Donovan, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works. Picture: Larry Cummins

It is a miracle that people were not drowned in their beds in Cork during intense flooding, a junior minister has said.

Discussing the very real and imminent threat that climate change poses to the country, Patrick O'Donovan said the perilous state of Cork city gives him the greatest level of concern.