“As Dublin’s Lord Mayor I wish to convey my sincere appreciation to all the emergency response services that mobilised so quickly in response to the monsoon-like rainfall that the City experienced yesterday.  In a concerted and co-ordinated effort under the City’s Crisis Management Plan, crews from the City Council’s frontline Drainage Services, Waste Management Services and Road Maintenance Division, worked in very difficult conditions along with Dublin Fire Brigade, the Gárdai, the Civil Defence and the HSE to deal with flooding incidents all over the City”, said the Lord Mayor.

“ This was an unprecedented and extreme weather event and it is great to hear that serious injury and fatality have been avoided. We hope to see a return to normality later this evening with the cleanup operation now in full swing ”, the Lord Mayor added.

ENDS.