Cork County Council announces locations to collect sandbags for flood-prone areas

Council officials said that if heavy rainfall occurs, leading to a high risk of flooding, they will make sandbags available at specific locations.

Cork County Council workmen with  sandbags in Bantry, West Cork, last year. Picture: Andy Gibson.

Cork County Council is to make sandbags available at a number of its depots in East Cork for businesses and residents amid fears that winter storms could see flood-prone areas hit once again.

The move follows a call from Independent councillor Mary Linehan Foley, the mayor of Co Cork, for sandbags to be made available in the Youghal Council Depot over the winter.