{"id":276406,"date":"2026-02-02T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276406\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:56:08","slug":"wexford-fishmongers-hit-with-second-flood-in-months-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276406\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford fishmongers hit with second flood in months \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The husband and wife team of Toddy and Tara Roche who run Kilmore Seafresh in the village of Bridgetown, Co Wexford<\/a> were hit by flood waters over the weekend for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n

The shop was hit on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning with 10 inches (25cm) of water. \u201cNot as bad as the last time,\u201d explained an exhausted Toddy Roche after a deluge of rain from Storm Chandra caused the local watercourse to break its banks again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost some stock but no electrical equipment this time as we had everything high up on crates,\u201d he said. \u201cOnly the council gave us a massive big pump to help us, we would have been hit as bad if not worse than last November.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple spent all of Saturday and much of Sunday mopping up. \u201cWe are aiming to re-open again this week but we\u2019ll have to wait and see\u201d because of the latest weather forecast which places Wexford under another status yellow rain warning.<\/p>\n

Last November the Roches prepared as best they could to battle against Storm Claudia which hit the south Wexford village. Five feet of water engulfed homes and businesses in the area.<\/p>\n

Now the parents of two boys in college feel defeated after their shop, a family-run fresh fish business which they opened in 2013, was flooded for a third time alongside other challenges including snow and the pandemic. <\/p>\n

Almost three months ago, the couple dumped two fridges and their generator stopped working. \u201cWe had other fridges up on crates to try to save them. The fridges are working but don\u2019t know if they will last,\u201d explained Tara Roche (44) in November.<\/p>\n

The couple are worn out from fighting the flooding. \u201cAt this stage we don\u2019t have the money to put back into this to lose again. It\u2019s 50\/50 if we keep going. If we buy in stock next week and this happens again we are completely in the red and owing money. It\u2019s a tough one (to decide what to do),\u201d said Toddy Roche, who said he was tired of calling for flood mitigation measures. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Storm Chandra: Flooding possible in \u2018many areas\u2019 as further rain forecastOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been advised to move but that will cost up to \u20ac60,000 and that\u2019s not viable for us. It breaks our hearts to even have to think about not going on but at this stage we have to think about not going on. There are plenty of people who think we are fools for thinking about continuing but we are stubborn. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all we know. All we know is fishing and fishing. The amount of support we\u2019ve received from customers has been amazing. We take pride in ourselves that everything in this shop is Irish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The husband and wife team of Toddy and Tara Roche who run Kilmore Seafresh in the village of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,131111,9270],"class_list":{"0":"post-276406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-storm-chandra","12":"tag-wexford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}