Flood defence plan - A never-ending challenge

Efforts to make the centre of Cork City less vulnerable to regular, devastating flooding have been ongoing, more or less since Sisyphus was a boy. 

Those efforts, like the Greek king’s never-ending challenge, have been only partially successful and more is needed. The opportunity for public comment on the latest plan to keep the waters off the streets ends this Friday.

Business organisations support a €140m defence plan, which is essentially a series of higher quay walls allied to a structure that might control the rate of water reaching the city from the upstream river at times of high tides.