{"id":164712,"date":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164712\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","slug":"flooding-in-low-lying-areas-of-cork-as-multiple-roads-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164712\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in low-lying areas of Cork as multiple roads closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Motorists are urged to exercise caution as several Cork city roads will close this evening due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork City Council have announced that several quayside roads will be closed due to flooding caused by high spring tides, with motorists urged to exercise caution when travelling through low-lying areas of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wandesford Quay and Union Quay will be closed to all traffic, whilst one eastbound lane on Lavitts Quay has also been shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The closures are in place as a precautionary measure whilst high spring tides continue to affect the city&#8217;s low-lying quayside routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A period of very high astronomical spring tides begins today, Wednesday, November 5 and is expected to last until Saturday evening, November 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Motorists are advised to avoid the affected routes and seek alternative pathways through the city centre. The road closures are expected to remain in place until water levels recede.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Drivers should expect delays and plan journeys accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists are urged to exercise caution as several Cork city roads will close this evening due to flooding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-164712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115498635970988525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164712","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=164712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}