{"id":310552,"date":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","slug":"further-flooding-fears-in-carlow-and-kilkenny-as-rainfall-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310552\/","title":{"rendered":"Further flooding fears in Carlow and Kilkenny as rainfall continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cleanups continue across Carlow and Kilkenny as both counties remain under the latest status yellow rainfall warning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It r<a href=\"https:\/\/kclr96fm.com\/carlow-and-kilkenny-under-another-status-yellow-rainfall-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uns to midnight tonight (Thursday 29th Jan).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>However just before lunchtime today another was announced for 9am to midnight tomorrow (Friday, 30th Jan).<\/p>\n<p>In Carlow the focus is on the River Barrow which is expected to rise later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlow-town1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlow-town1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\"  \/><\/a><br \/>Council crews were out overnight and again this morning along the River Burren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlow-town-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlow-town-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin Quilty\u2019s there today;<\/p>\n<p>While Dermot Keyes is in Callan, County Kilkenny;<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Joe Lyons has the update on the local flood prevention plans;<\/p>\n<p>Not good news for those with picnic plans for the Abbey Meadow:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/callan-flood-in-abbey-meadow-seats-under-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/callan-flood-in-abbey-meadow-seats-under-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1824\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Dermot\u2019s also been meeting with some local business people \u2013 including those behind Fika and Fennelly\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleanups continue across Carlow and Kilkenny as both counties remain under the latest status yellow rainfall warning. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[151826,151827,151339,1845,2260,18,440,19,17,1328,151828,133],"class_list":["post-310552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-abhainn-ri","tag-burren-river","tag-callan","tag-carlow","tag-carlow-town","tag-eire","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-kings-river","tag-science"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115980927511098910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310552","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=310552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}