While many have been impacted by Storm Chandra, there’s huge positivity surrounding the community response.
Council crews and fire personnel have been out assisting where they can across both counties in the last couple of days.
As river levels fall the focus is on the clean-up.
KCLR News’ Martin Quilty met one business owner in Clonegal, county Carlow, who moved his shop contents and operation into a shed;
The most dramatic scenes locally were in Graignamanagh, in particular at one home owned by an 84-year-old – her son in law Tom Holden has been outlining details on The KCLR Daily;
Students from Duiske College were among those out helping those in both.
Our Dermot Keyes is there this morning and has been hearing from the secondary school’s Caretaker Declan Foley and Principal Georgina Murphy;
Dermot too also caught up with Mijke Jansen of Barrow Valley Activities Hub who lives in Inistioge;
A number of local areas are awaiting flood defence schemes – KCLR News’ Martin Quilty’s been hearing in Tullow how well such systems can work;
