After weeks of downpours, the political levees broke this week as residents and business owners on the east coast counted the cost of flooding. Sent Monday to Friday when the Dáil is in sessionHello and welcome to this Friday’s Inside Politics newsletter, your recap of the week in politics. The real human cost to lives and livelihoods paints the failure of successive governments to put adequate flood-protection measures in place in a bad light. With more bad weather inbound for the bank holiday weekend, there’s every chance the flood won’t become a trickle of bad news for the Government, but a torrent. So beating that counts for a good day in housing, something recent governments have rare experience of.

Source: The Irish Times January 31, 2026 03:35 UTC