Irish Examiner view: Home insurance falls victim to Storm Chandra and climate change 

People in Cork still dealing with the fallout from Storm Babet look on with sympathy as residents in the east are battered by Storm Chandra

Storm Chandra wreaked havoc in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, this week as the River Slaney bursts its banks. Hundreds of schools were closed, and tens of thousands of people were left without power during the storm. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Much of the coverage of Ireland’s rough weather has, rightly, concentrated on the here and now of Storm Chandra, a tempest whose gentle Sanskrit name has belied its severe consequences.

Residents of Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin, already saturated from Tuesday’s deluge, were preparing for more yesterday, while Louth, Carlow, Kilkenny, and Waterford were added to the rainfall warning.