{"id":134923,"date":"2025-10-20T23:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134923\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:38:12","slug":"stormont-to-discuss-potential-support-after-down-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134923\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormont to discuss potential support after Down floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stormont Executive is to discuss potential support for those impacted by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2025\/1019\/1539407-newcastle-flooding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> flooding in Co Down<\/a>, the First Minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Clean-up work is continuing in Newcastle following the floods during which Tullybrannigan Road was transformed into a &#8220;river&#8221; after heavy rain on the Mourne Mountains yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Northern Ireland was under a yellow rain warning from midnight to 3pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Infrastructure said more than 900 sandbags were used and their teams cleared the roads of debris, which included large stones.<\/p>\n<p>They said their staff had been &#8220;on standby all weekend following the Met Office weather warning issued&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>First Minister Michelle O&#8217;Neill paid tribute to first responders and those working on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were devastating scenes in Newcastle, and unfortunately these weather events seem to be happening a lot more often,&#8221; she said at Parliament Buildings in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to commend all of those responders that were on the ground over the weekend working with communities providing sandbags and that practical support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll discuss as an Executive how we can best support all those people that have been impacted, but for now all the effort and energy is in the immediate response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stormont Executive is to discuss potential support for those impacted by flooding in Co Down, the First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-134923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}