The report focused in particular on the impact of this global heating on sea levels. The report prompted an academic in Trinity College Dublin to warn that “emergency evacuation processes” are “urgently needed” to prepare for what is to come. Prof Iris Moller, a coastal geomorphologist, pointed out that Ireland was fortunate that the last four extreme storms have largely occurred at low tide. If Storm Chandra had occurred during a high spring tide, she said, the situation would have been many times worse. But as recent reports have shown, national efforts to improve flood defences lag hopelessly behind current circumstances, let alone prepare the State for what is coming down the tracks.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2026 08:09 UTC