The husband and wife team of Toddy and Tara Roche who run Kilmore Seafresh in the village of Bridgetown, Co Wexford were hit by flood waters over the weekend for the third time in four years.
The shop was hit on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning with 10 inches (25cm) of water. “Not as bad as the last time,” explained an exhausted Toddy Roche after a deluge of rain from Storm Chandra caused the local watercourse to break its banks again.
“We lost some stock but no electrical equipment this time as we had everything high up on crates,” he said. “Only the council gave us a massive big pump to help us, we would have been hit as bad if not worse than last…