Slaney Search and Rescue sconcertato dalla denuncia del comune

Slaney Search and Rescue has said they are baffled and upset by a complaint made by Wexford County Council to local gardaí in Enniscorthy following their rescue of a family of four at the height of Tuesday’s flooding in the town.

Chairman Shane O’Connor said he was contacted by gardaí who told him an official from Wexford County Council had complained they “had overstepped the mark by taking people out of their homes”.

Mr O’Connor said they had launched one of their boats after receiving a call from local Independent County Councillor Jackser Owens.

He was concerned about a family of three adults and a newborn baby who were stranded in their apartment on Templeshannon Quay.

In all, the group took up to 15 families out of their homes last Tuesday.

The OP’s comment and the reporter are misrepresent the story.

Slaney Search and Rescue claim the complaint was the council were complaining Slaney Search and Rescue “had overstepped the mark by taking people out of their homes”.

The council says that their complaint was that they had asked that no one use the bridge becasue they were afraid it would collapse;

> because of fears for the structural integrity of the bridge, he said council officials asked them to stop ferrying people across the floodwater, as it meant people would then have to cross the old bridge.

> “Our roads engineers had a fear about the structural integrity of the walls of the old bridge and that is why we decided to close it to pedestrian traffic. It wasn’t what Slaney Search and Rescue were doing. It was the fact that we wanted to minimise that risk to pedestrians on the bridge.”