"Green" policies are destroying this country

And you think that by cutting our carbon emissions it will stop these towns flooding. The mind boggles at the logic.

If it achieves the same here I'll happily put up with the inconvenience.

I'll put it down as my small contribution to the cause.

It's a shame to see so many parts of the country blighted with discarded bottles.

If people could get over the relatively recent addiction of not being able to cross the road without swigging out of a water bottle it might held reduce this problem. Reduce comes first

Three fine messes in the east of Laois:

1 - 'Are they more important in Portlaoise than out the country?' - Laois Today

So much for active travel and encouraging kids and adults into keeping fit - the locals can just take their chances walking and cycling along a narrow road - or perhaps just forgo being active at all. A cynic would conclude that money is being shifted into bigger urban centres ahead of the next elections to help green candidates get elected.

2 - Mystery as €200k funding for Timahoe footpath/cycle lane is taken off the agenda - Laois Today

WOW! Just look at that, a copy-and-paste job from the NTA, perhaps the real reason is a copy and paste of my above opinions on why money for green projects are being withdrawn from rural villages.

3- 'I could put my fist through the table with vexation' says Laois councillor over 46-year battle for Ballybrittas sewage system - Laois Today

We want clean water they said... more waffle from the greens as usual. But look, there's an empty TFI bus trying to turn a corner in Rhode, Co. Offaly - shows that the greens are incapable of doing much at all let alone when they do anything that it's even remotely good.

Dredge from the river mouth. If ya just do a bit in the middle it's not worth a shite. Common sense there but I bet if there was a council implementing dredging they'd make a balls of it.

I see flooding in Skerries this evening. Which upland farming intensification is to blame for that?

@roosterman71

If it ain't upland farming it's gotta be C02, no doubt.

You're the type of lad that when the tap is on full blast, and the plug is only half in ya'd be happy to wet the floor before building higher sides on the sink sooner than pull the plug out.

And if the river was cleaned, it could hold more water before bursting it's banks and get it to the sea quicker.

I find it amazing you don't understand that increasing capacity in the river to what it once was is bad. Yer one step away from saying we should throw more rubbish into rivers to reduce flow as that will prevent more flooding

They very much so failed to deliver a relief scheme in time. The major cause of the flood remains the amount of rain that fell in that time. And as a person directly affected, at council level there needs to be a resolution to the multiple causes that led to it happening. But equally, we all need to start taking global warming seriously, it's gonna affect towns across Ireland more and more, that's the reality.

Its quite clear that flood defenses are woefully inadequate in this country. The authorities don't take it seriously, by all means build on flood plains, but you need to build drainage channels, pumping stations, sterile zones and dykes. Can only talk of Bray, as its local, but it flooded badly in 86, took another 30 years before the defenses were built.

A quick look on RTE archives and you'll see various towns getting flooded over the decades, some repeatedly before anything is done. This isn't a new phenomenon and the reaction, or lack of action isn't new either.

We've a country full of dithers who do nothing, shout loudly, drag heals, shout loudly again and then we've the other camp who hold up projects through various vested and self interests.

It was Middleton this week, it will be another town next time a storm comes. Its not climate change or global warming, its mother nature doing what she does and has always done.

The world changes, the environment changes, where we live is changing, we need to engineer our way into the future, not tax people into submission and hope that being a good pontificating green citizen protects from reality.

Spot on. From time immortal humans have grappled with taming nature - yet despite with all the technology and engineering tools we have at our disposal we've never seemed as inept to the task of doing the job that needs doing.

What if you have absolutely no control of the tap