Flood warnings will be texted to communities under threat of flooding in future

Flood warnings will be texted to communities under threat of flooding in future

Communities may be warned of flooding through a new text messaging system by next year, the Taoiseach has said. Cabinet ministers held several emergency meetings in Dublin yesterday to address the fallout from torrential rain and flooding in the past week. The meetings, convened by Micheál Martin, discussed how best to inform people of flood risks in an area, such as localised weather alerts, after criticism of Met Éireann and county councils’ c…