{"id":276935,"date":"2026-02-02T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:36:09","slug":"we-need-to-limit-the-ability-to-take-judicial-reviews-residents-furious-with-legal-challenges-that-leave-homes-vulnerable-to-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276935\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to limit the ability to take judicial reviews\u2019 \u2014 residents \u2018furious\u2019 with legal challenges that leave homes vulnerable to flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As people struggle to cope with devastation caused by Storm Chandra, many are angry at the actions of certain groups\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caroline Walsh with one of the floorboards from her flood-damaged hallway at her home in Rathfarnham. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c2bd5b1c-a3e7-4f70-8420-7af40399f3a9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caroline Walsh with one of the floorboards from her flood-damaged hallway at her home in Rathfarnham. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Residents in Rathfarnham in south county Dublin awoke in the early hours of Tuesday to find their homes and cars flooded without any forewarning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ryan Corcoran, a resident of one apartment near Dodder Park Road, has lived here since 2022, but said this was the first time he experienced any flooding around his apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As people struggle to cope with devastation caused by Storm Chandra, many are angry at the actions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3775,61,60,7113,1191,43,43535],"class_list":{"0":"post-276935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-fine-gael","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mark-tighe","12":"tag-met-eireann","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-office-of-public-works-opw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276935","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=276935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}