Recent heavy rain in Ireland

Flooding on the river Tolka following recent rain
Originally uploaded by Brian O'Donovan

Ireland's famous "40 Shades of Green" is only achieved with lots of regular rainfall so we are well used to dealing with rain. However, in the last week or so the rain has been much heavier than normal.

In Dublin we escaped the worst of the deluge - the only impact upon me was that I had to cycle to work by the regular roads rather than taking my preferred scenic route through the park (the path trough the park was partly under water).

As you can see in these pictures, other parts of Ireland had much worse flooding.