The river runs eternal, it seems

In my senior years, it is somewhat frightening to find that the “City by the Lee” continues to be devastated during spring tides by floods, not withstanding the intervening years of advances in technology and a ravaging tiger in funding availability.

There can be no blame game however, given that in 2009 we had real live warnings when even the walls along the banks of our Lee’s north channel succumbed to the speed of water down stream encouraged by the overflow of Carrigadrohid and Inniscarra Reservoir.

Such floods are no new phenomena to our fair city — when as youths we observed many being assisted by the local fire service staff, the Army and its reserves (LDF & LSF as well as later FCA), prior to the arrival of Civil Defence Units, all rendering the best of service, no matter the weather, or time of day or night.