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01st Feb 2014

Pics: Ireland wakes up to more floods and high winds, with River Shannon bursting its banks

We can't catch a break.

Tony Cuddihy

We can’t catch a break.

We’ve just received this image of Eddie O’Doherty fishing outside his front door in Limerick this morning, as more floods hit the west coast.

Fishing

The scale of the flooding has been revealed by TV3 weatherman Deric Hartigan, who tweeted pictures from Limerick and Galway this morning.

The Dock Road in Limerick

DockRoadLimerick

Limerick City under water

Limerick

The Shannon bursts its banks

Shannon

Salthill in Galway

Salthill in Galway

(Credit: Enda Cunningham)

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