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@iomanaiocht wrote:

isnt it FASCINATING that Clare County Council have just given planning permission to UL for development on 27 acres of floodplain immediatedly to the north of WestburyCorbally. Once built it will have horrendous effects on this area when the next flood arives. Unbelievable

Whoah there imanaiocht!
You’re totally underestimating Clare County Council’s capacity for hindsight, which will kick into action directly after your predicted flood.

Any pics of student village and how it is faring in the flood? As far as I know it was designed with a certain frequency of flood event in mind but this seems to be a one in several hundred years flood.

Look at the Black Bridge! 😮

The mind boggles because so much more water is already diverted away upstream into the ESB Head Race via Ardnacrusha!

Does anybody find it odd that the lock gates at Shannon Rowing Club are closed and not open given the circumstances?

@AerialPhoto.ie wrote:

I took a spherical panorama at the college this morning that gives a pretty good idea of the impact of the flooding.

Click on the photo below in order to view a 360 degree panorama of the site:
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linky broken mate, 404 error coming up

the student village you’re talking about (thomand) is seemingly designed to be able to take floods (there’s lots of small bridges and things in it). However the water supply was cut off for a while. other than that nothing major. water still not back properly in the showers though!! Tis gettin awful smelly down here!

Limerick still on high flood alert though….

@iomanaiocht wrote:

isnt it FASCINATING that Clare County Council have just given planning permission to UL for development on 27 acres of floodplain immediatedly to the north of WestburyCorbally. Once built it will have horrendous effects on this area when the next flood arives. Unbelievable

Sport Facilities ~ 4 Pitches & Pavillion ~ Project Architects

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Planning permission granted for the construction of a Field Sports Facility on a 9.8 hectare site within the University’s Clare Campus. The development comprises four raised floodlit sports pitches, with perimeter earthen berm, ancillary lighting, boundary fences and walkways, and an 1,810 sq.m pavillion building on two levels, providing 10 no changing rooms, referee rooms, administration rooms, cafe restaurant and 2 no. coaching rooms, 392 car parking spaces, 4 coach parking spaces and associated landscaping and site works.

Garraun, Clonlara, Co. Clare

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I must admit that I’m taken aback by the extent of these floods from O’Briensbridge down as far as Corbally. One would think the Ardnacrusha head race had never existed as I was always of the impression that the 1920’s Shannon Scheme diverted huge volumes of water away thus reducing the water levels of the original river all year round.

Will the UL still go ahead now with the four raised sports pitches and perimeter earthen berm?

Or alternatively instead of raising the pitches why not develop them as part of the flood plain?

There must be another 20.000 acres of flood plains up stream that will have to be revisted.

Thanks for the compliments guys, it’s a little tricky getting nice images at this time of year with the low sun angles.
I actually took completion photographs of Thomond Village for Murray O Laoire back in 2006 I think it was, I wondered at the time how it would handle flooding and I’m glad to see that it fared out ok.

Interesting shots, cheers for uploading them tradcentric.

It’s good to finally see a building providing a backdrop for the bridge, the site was a car park for the last couple of years!

The north campus is definitely starting to take shape at this stage, I believe construction has also started on the medical school. Must take a spin out there some day to have a look!

UL builds €1.1m residence for president (RTE)

Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe is to ask for a report into the construction of a €1.1 million residence for the University of Limerick President.

The university, which is €3m in debt, has said that no taxpayers’ money was spent on the new home for Professor Don Barry, which was built with philanthropic donations.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, the minister said that although he had only recently learned of the three-storey, five-bedroom house, it appeared ‘lavish’ in a time when universities should be exercising restraint.

See also UL News “New Facility Nearing Completion on the UL Campus”

I think the Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe would not mind having UL’s problems (i.e. €3m in debt), on the face of it the new €1.1 President’s residence (on campus) would seem to me to be pretty good value for money!

To put lavish (waste) into perspective, UL could have built 60-70 such buildings from money the Department of Environment blew, i.e. € 83 million on a € 10 million sewerage pipe.