Shannon floods: Locals divided on how to tackle crisis
(WorldNews Environment)

`I have my wellies in the boot,` Taoiseach Leo Varadkar remarked helpfully as he gazed into the flood waters lapping close to the doors of Carrick-on-Shannon cineplex, as a few photographers waited to see how he was going to negotiate the obstacle ahead. A short time later he asked two Leitrim women who wanted to talk about the floods threatening their homes whether the media should switch their tapes off. `It can become a bit of a circus,` he declared, and how glad everyone was that he hadn´t needed to don the wellies and wade across in order to get to Grainne Caldbeck´s Enhance Health & Beauty centre for a report on day-to-day life in a flood. In fact, a newly-constructed gravel...