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An aerial view of the Midlands taken by the Irish Air Corps shows the extent of the flooding at Ballinasloe and Athlone. (Irish Air Corp Facebook page)
LOOKING OUT THE window this morning, you may be fooled – but another Atlantic storm depression is making its way to Irish shores and is set to land some time this afternoon.
The latest Atlantic storm depression heading for Ireland is expected to bring wet and windy weather, with flood warnings being issued for eastern and southern parts of the country.
(View of large swell via MagicSeaweed.com)
Met Eireann has issued a status orange warning stating that:
Large waves, high tides and low pressure values are likely to lead to some coastal flooding.Heavy rain or showers are also expected and with the water table so high, some river flooding is likely too.
The orange warning comes into effect this afternoon at 3pm and is set to last up until Wednesday morning at 9am.
Cork
Cork City Council has issued a tidal flood alert stating that there is a “particular risk predicted” for the evening tide period today.
High tide today will be at 8.37am and 8.53pm, and 9.21am and 9.36pm on Wednesday.
Speaking on RTE’s Morning Ireland Tim Lucey, Cork City Manager said that they are expecting “serious flooding” in Cork city centre.
He said that due to the tidal surge and strong southerly/south-easterly winds predicted for today, and the high water levels, could result in flooding that is even more “extensive” than has already been experienced.
The tidal flood alert is in place between 8pm and 10pm tonight covering low lying areas of the City Centre including the South Terrace, Union Quay, French’s Quay, Lapps’ Quay and the Coal quay.
South Mall, Oliver Plunkett Street and St Patrick Street, the Centre Park Road, Monahan’s Road and the Lower Glanmire Road are also on alert this morning.
For a full list of at-risk areas, see the Cork City Council website.
Inland flooding
There were also warnings yesterday that the waters could move inland as the water levels rise.
Met Eireann has also issued a status orange wind warning for Dublin, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Cork, Kerry and Waterford, and a yellow wind warning for Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary.
Southeast to east winds of mean speeds 65 to 80 km/h and will gust 90 to 115 km/h at times, along southern and eastern coasts.
Areas such as Limerick and Cork have already been hammered by severe weather and floods in recent days.
Minister Brian Hayes, who has responsibility for the Office of Public Works, travelled to Limerick yesterday to assess some of the worst affected areas, stating that it was a “very grim situation”.
Relief
The Minister said that the figure of €10 million set aside for immediate humanitarian relief would not be enough to address the problem, and that he hoped Limerick City and County Council could meet the deadline of today for requesting additional funds for repairing flood damage.
He stressed that his Department will be spending in excess of €44 million on new flood relief measures over the coming year.
While we may think we are out of the worst of it after this storm, Met Eireann has said that there is another large swell expected in from the Atlantic this Friday. So, it’s not over just yet.
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Taste of his own medicine…..welldone french police
Would have preferred that he would suffer through the remainder of his life in a prison tbh rather than such a quick end.
Sounds like he killed himself jumping out the window coward to the end
Yes, Shane. Coward. As they all are. It must never be forgotten that he murdered children in cold blood. To hell with him.
Shane it was a ground floor apartment so I don’t think he jumped out the window to commit suicide!
Gearoid ye it had said it was a 5 story building and wasn’t sure what floor he was on , sure ended up he got a bullet in the skull from a police sniper .
Instead of 50 virgins in paradise, he’s, hopefully, simply stone dead.
It’s 72 virgins actually.
In fact there’s an argument about the translation of the word “virgin”, it could be “grapes”. So these nuts are looking forward to dying for a bunch of grapes :)
72 Susan Boyles…..aaagh
Inevitable end really,he was dead when he went into that house but I would’ve liked to see him rotting in a lonely dull cell for the rest of his life
About time!!
Real shame he wasn’t captured alive and put on trial. This was too quick an end for him.
Unfortunately he may be seen as a hero to extremists and may inspire other attacks.
LePen and her neo Nazi kind will use this to further ingrate tensions between France and it’s north african minority.
I’m also surprised that a lot of reports ignore the fact that his first victims were french muslim soldiers.
Headshot whilst jumping from a window..? Good amount of XP for that!
I’m actually so disappointed that it ended like this he got exactly what he wanted jumping out of a window guns blazing, to nutters like him he will be seen as a hero. Justice for the families would have been for him to see out the rest of his days in little 4/4 cell somewhere. But I guess there was very little the police could do it was almost inevitable that he was not going to be taken alive.
The commandos weren’t up to much by the sounds of it. This lunatic seemed to have the upper hand from day one. Should have brought in the SAS.
Dens do you try take the proverbial piss on everything? Seriously a therapist would have nightmares with you.
The French RIAD unit regularly train with other elite units like the SAS and GIGN, at the end of the day a nut with a fully automatic machine gun in a small apartment can get a lucky shot off. Job well done by them anyway.
Arrogance ….. You should have gone over there and shown them how to do it Denis.
Allez Les Blue.
Simple question comes to mind, where did he get the gun/s – in particular the machine gun/s?
A kalashnikov can be picked up in the suburbs of Marseille for 400 Euro
“Jumped” yeah right.
good shot!!!
Well done to the French Police. What a scumbag I have no sympathy for him.
Sarkozy said in a statement that this lunatic has been under police surveillance for a number of years. Obviously not the other day when he committed murder. Any terrorist who is considered a threat should be locked up instead of getting a police escort which doesn’t work anyway.
Allen les Blue
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