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GALLERY: The morning after the floods

The damage caused by last night’s dramatic floods was plain to see in the cold light of day – including an entire piece of garden decking floating down the Liffey. With pot plants attached.
5.40pm, 25 Oct 2011
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IT’S THE DAY after the night before and Dublin in particular is counting the cost of yesterday’s floods and rain…

GALLERY: The morning after the floods
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  • The morning after the storm

    Lady's Lane in Kilmainham, Dublin after the Camac River burst its banks. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

  • The morning after the storm

    David Cahill in his kitchen off Parnell Road, Dublin 8. The waterline of the flood is visable behind him. Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Wall knocked by flood at Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin Image: @anfearg/Greg Stanley

  • The morning after the storm

    Cars still stuck in the floods in Harold's Cross area, Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Cleaning up in Ringsend, Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the flood

    Dublin Criminal Courts Closed due to damage caused by flooding; there is no mains power supply there today. Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    The Harold's Cross area of Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the flood

    Dundrum shopping centre was closed this morning after the ground floor flooded last night. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Dundrum Town Centre staff have managed to clear most of the floodwaters from the ground floor but shops are damaged. Image: @DundrumTC

  • The morning after the storm

    The reality one resident of Lady's Lane in Kilmainham came down to this morning. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Dublin City Council workers clean blocked drains at Harry's Terrace in Kilmainham. Image: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Debris silts up Lady's Lane in Kilmainham. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the floods

    Martin Murphy surveys the damage in Kilmainham. Image: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Wolfe Tone Quay in Dublin city centre was closed due to subsidence after flooding. Photo Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

  • The morning after the storm

    Starfish washed up on Termonfeckin beach in Co Louth this morning. Image: @thetasty_tart/Tara Walker

  • The morning after the storm

    A piece of garden decking, still with pot plants intact, floats down the Liffey near Heuston Station, Dublin. Image: @AlanWall77

  • The morning after the storm

    The River Liffey at the top of the quay walls in Dublin this morning. Image: @Duirmuid

  • The morning after the storm

    The 'swimming pool' in the back garden of TheJournal.ie reader @BKatieB/Katie Baynes

  • The morning after the storm

    The roaring water of the River Dodder at Rathfarnham, Dublin this morning. Image: @carnsoreboxer

  • The morning after the storm

    A massive amount of debris has to be moved from the River Dodder by machine. Image: Frank Gallen

  • Floods of mornings past - 1954

    This is an aerial shot of flooding at Fairview, Dublin on a December morning in 1954. Image produced courtesy of National Library of Ireland from the Independent Newspapers collection.
  • Lady's Lane in Kilmainham, Dublin after the Camac River burst its banks. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
  • David Cahill in his kitchen off Parnell Road, Dublin 8. The waterline of the flood is visable behind him. Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
  • Wall knocked by flood at Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin Image: @anfearg/Greg Stanley
  • Cars still stuck in the floods in Harold's Cross area, Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
  • Cleaning up in Ringsend, Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
  • Dublin Criminal Courts Closed due to damage caused by flooding; there is no mains power supply there today. Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
  • The Harold's Cross area of Dublin. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
  • Dundrum shopping centre was closed this morning after the ground floor flooded last night. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
  • Dundrum Town Centre staff have managed to clear most of the floodwaters from the ground floor but shops are damaged. Image: @DundrumTC
  • The reality one resident of Lady's Lane in Kilmainham came down to this morning. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
  • Dublin City Council workers clean blocked drains at Harry's Terrace in Kilmainham. Image: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
  • Debris silts up Lady's Lane in Kilmainham. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
  • Martin Murphy surveys the damage in Kilmainham. Image: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
  • Wolfe Tone Quay in Dublin city centre was closed due to subsidence after flooding. Photo Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
  • Starfish washed up on Termonfeckin beach in Co Louth this morning. Image: @thetasty_tart/Tara Walker
  • A piece of garden decking, still with pot plants intact, floats down the Liffey near Heuston Station, Dublin. Image: @AlanWall77
  • The River Liffey at the top of the quay walls in Dublin this morning. Image: @Duirmuid
  • The 'swimming pool' in the back garden of TheJournal.ie reader @BKatieB/Katie Baynes
  • The roaring water of the River Dodder at Rathfarnham, Dublin this morning. Image: @carnsoreboxer
  • A massive amount of debris has to be moved from the River Dodder by machine. Image: Frank Gallen
  • This is an aerial shot of flooding at Fairview, Dublin on a December morning in 1954. Image produced courtesy of National Library of Ireland from the Independent Newspapers collection.

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