OPW chair warns communities may have to be ‘abandoned’ due to climate change flooding

Maurice Buckley said ‘horrendous’ truth was that not all populated coastal areas could be protected in event of sea-level rises

Maurice Buckley, OPW chairman: ‘If you stop to think about it, so many of our communities and our big cities are built along the coast. And not just communities, but infrastructure like rail lines and roads and so on. So this is absolutely huge.’ Picture: Bryan Meade