Irish Examiner View: A coherent response to flooding is badly needed

Water gushing out of manhole covers during the recent flooding event in Bantry, Co Cork. Picture: Andy GIbson.

It is not unusual to read dire predictions about the future of the planet due to the climate crisis, but we are now encountering the reality of the climate crisis in the present.

Two recent stories in this newspaper showed how the climate crisis is already having an impact on matters ranging from the cost of insurance to interagency co-operation.