Letters to the Editor: We should consider abandoning land prone to flooding

One reader responds to Michael Moynihan's comments about the stalled event centre and Cork's response to flooding, while others consider aspects of the conflict in the Middle East

In light of increasingly frequent weather events leading to flooding, a reader suggests Cork may be lucky that the planned event centre on South Main St isn’t built yet. Picture: Larry Cummins

I read with interest Michael Moynihan’s column about the need for a co-ordinated response to flooding ('Michael Moynihan: Delays and dysfunction — why we never get things done correctly in Cork', Irish Examiner, November 2) and the hole in the ground where the event centre should be.

Maybe Cork is lucky that it isn’t built. Our weather is changing — we now get many more cloudbursts with much greater intensity than in the past, and we have unseasonal weather. A “soft day, thank God” is becoming a thing of the past.