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A collapsed road at Quigley's Point in Donegal Niall Carson/PA Images

It's going to take €15 million to fix Donegal's roads after last month's flooding

Donegal County Council released its estimates on the repair costs this afternoon.

THE TOTAL COST of repairs to Donegal’s roads infrastructure in the wake of last month’s catastrophic flooding will be around €15.3 million, according to Donegal County Council.

The vast majority of this money – €13.45 million – will go towards the repair of roads in Inishowen, which was worst hit by the flooding.

In total, 59 homes have registered as being displaced by floods. The council said that “solutions” had been found for 31 families thus far.

While a total of 600 issues had been identified on the 1,500km road network in Inishowen, the council is currently working on priority regional routes to reopen them as soon as possible.

It is expected that the R244 at Craignahorna on the mountain road between Buncrana and Cardonagh will not reopen for another four weeks.

The R240 at Riverside between Quigley’s Point and Carndonagh is now open to single lane traffic, while the R238 at Three Trees between Muff and Quigley’s Point has now reopened to two-way traffic.

For those families affected, many of the solutions found have involved the arrangement of alternative accommodation.

“A number of cases do not require action at this time and the council continues to work with all displaced households on a case-by-case basis to address their housing needs,” Donegal County Council said.

Furthermore, 115 bridges have suffered flood damage and a quarter of them may need to be replaced.

It may take six to 12 months to arrange permanent replacements, the council said.

Speaking to TheJournal.ie, local councillor Martin McDermott said: “A lot of people have just realised the extent of the damage that some people have. There are a lot of main roads that have to be reopened. It’ll be another month to six weeks before they are.

As for the families who’ve been forced out of their homes, it could be till Christmas before they get back into them.

Read: ‘It’ll be very, very difficult to get back to normal’: How Donegal is coping after the catastrophic floods

Read:  After a two-year wait, a probe into ‘dodgy’ Donegal planning is finally finished

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    Mute Rafa Condron
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    Jan 23rd 2023, 6:55 AM

    Horrendous act of pure evil. With guns available so readily any person with a grievance or psychotic motive can commit a mass murder at any time, anywhere.

    5th a mass KILLING this year alone, it’s 23 January. That’s a mass shooting every 4 days or so.

    There’s actually been 33 Mass Shootings in January – That’s almost 1.5 mass shootings per day!

    Any other country experiences a mass shooting and the next day they are putting into place stricter gun controls. Not America, they want to put guns in everyones hands to protect others against a mass shooter… what a weird way of thinking…

    ‘Murica.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 7:13 AM

    @Rafa Condron: they live in different world over there.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 7:17 AM

    So sad to think of all the needless deaths and suffering. I am not sure that gun control would even be enough – but it might be a start. However, something in the US physic seems to create an element of self entitlement which manifests in many ways and not just in mass shootings. Still we hope and pray.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 7:39 AM

    National Rifle Association – I hope you’re happy. As long as you resist reasonable legislation to curb gun control, these events will continue.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 8:21 AM

    No doubt more weapons would sort out this type of problem, maybe even a few tanks. Yeah, let them have tanks. Freeeedoom!

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 7:36 AM

    There are more guns than people in the US. Literally.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 8:20 AM

    @Bert Carolan: I can’t remember the exact statistic, but it would take an incredible amount of time to decommission all the guns owned in America. I think it was beyond decades and into hundreds of years. The logistics that would be involved are staggering.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 8:18 AM

    The article states this is the fifth mass shooting of 2023. However, according to CNN who reference Gun Violence Archive this is in fact number 33.

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/23/politics/mass-shootings-in-2023-what-matters/index.html

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 1:02 PM

    @Steve: 5th mass killing. There have been of course 33 mass shootings as I said in the comments already.

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    Jan 23rd 2023, 9:26 AM

    Not a bit surprised. It’s the norm in Amercia to go around shooting people.

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