The death toll from flooding in Spain has reached 217 people with many areas still scenes of destruction.
It’s the country’s worst disaster in decades and among those impacted is Kilkenny native Gabrielle Tallent who moved to Valencia in 2008, is married there with three children – their family home’s among those to have been destroyed in the past week according to thejournal.ie
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Yesterday the Spanish King and Queen were met with angry crowds in the devastated town of Paiporta.
Paddy’s Point is an Irish pub in the Costa Blanca which has been organising donations to help with the clean-up and its owner, Hazel Connor from Clara in County Offaly, says they’ve been driving vans packed full of supplies to Valencia.
