Weather warning’s for more heavy rain are in place for counties in the east and south east.
Carlow and Kilkenny with Laois, Wexford, Kildare, Tipperary, Louth and Monaghan are under a yellow alert until 3o’clock tomorrow morning while our two local county councils have issued advisories that also run to midnight Sunday.
While there’s an Orange notice for Wicklow and Waterford extended to include Dublin from midday.
Met Eireann’s forecasting rain that will be falling on already saturated grounds – combined with the elevated river levels and expected high tides localised flooding, river’s overspilling and difficult travelling conditions are due.
David Martin from the Road Safety Authority says its going to be challenging on the roads and notes; “First thing to do is give yourself extra time on your journey, it’s going to be a bit slower than you might anticipate normally, drivers need to slow down and allow a greater breaking distance between themselves and the vehicle in front in wet weather conditions, the stopping distance in wet weather conditions is at least double required than on a dry road so you need to bear that in mind”.
Meanwhile, The Red Cross will hold support clinics for businesses affected by last week’s floods today.
They estimate over 65 businesses across New Ross, Enniscorthy and Bunclody in Co. Wexford were impacted by the initial spells of bad weather.
Deirdre Garvey, Secretary General of the Irish Red Cross, says they’ll be helping business owners apply for Government grants to help; “So that people who can in one sense completely speed up the application form by just coming along, get it filled in there and then, they have the photographs, we have a local authority to validate teh businesses or the community groups existence and then we can trigger our colleagues up in Dublin to release that first payment on behalf of the Department of Enterprise and the Government so it’s a place to get information, it’s a place to get a little bit of, just, moral support”.
