Singer, Family Trapped in Flood
26 Aug 1986Singer, family trapped in flood
By DENIS McCLEAN
OPERA singer Joan Merrigan and her family were today trapped in their home on Harold’s Cross Road as overnight rains and flooding on the underground Poddle river turned part of the area into a lake.
Eight vehicles were abandoned when they came to a halt in the floods on the main road, and there was a huge traffic pile-up as buses and lorries slowly weaved their way between the abandoned cars and through the flood waters, which came up to almost two feet in places.
From her house at 21 Harold’s Cross Road, Joan spoke through the window, and said that she could not open the front door or the back door, for fear of the water level inside the house rising.
She lives in the house with her mother Mrs. Ann Merrigan, and her brother, Paul, and she complained bitterly that she had been asking the gardaĆ to stop all traffic passing along the road as the waves they were creating were sending the water pouring through her front and back doors.
The Merrigan’s next door neighbour, 85-year-old Evelyn McEneaney was forced to abandon her home completely as the flood waters poured in.
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