The Irish Examiner View: Hope will not trump science

We kick the can along the road, hoping optimism will trump science.

Work started on a £100m flood barrier in Boston, Lincolnshire, just over a year ago and it will be completed this year. A moveable gate being built across the River Witham and is intended to protect around 17,000 properties in the town, which has a population of 70,000, about one sixth of the population of greater Cork.

That is one of Britain’s face-reality responses to rising sea levels.