THIS year’s rain has burst most river banks across the county . . . and also the record books with 2015 already the wettest ever experienced...
THE head of the IFA’s National Flood Project Team has called for a more ‘hands on’ approach to the worsening flood crisis from Taoiseach Enda Kenny...
Since 1998 successive consultants’ reports have documented technical solutions to the flooding across Galway but cost benefit analysis criteria as well as environment hurdles have prevented...
There are renewed fears that house insurance premiums are going to sky-rocket following last week’s rainfall in Ballinasloe. Various parts of East Galway were under water...
Commuters on the Headford Road and the N17 are facing another evening of traffic chaos as the N84 remains closed between Corrandulla barracks and Regan’s of...
It was exactly six years ago when Tom Quinn was woken from his slumber at dawn in his home at Caherfourvause, a mile outside the Galway...
Galway is bracing itself for worse flooding yet to come with the Shannon and Clare Rivers yet to peak in the aftermath of Storm Desmond. As...
THE flooding of last weekend with its Super Saturday downpour is now being rated by many farmers as worse than the flood event of November, 2009,...