Updated (24/12/2015) – I’ve updated the slideshow of images below so that you can see the difference in the water level between December 11th and December 14th (when the waters were nearly at their peak). I’ve also added images from some of the same locations that I took during the 2009 flood in Athlone. Obviously, my pictures don’t give the full picture, but it does look like the floodwater was higher in 2009, and that the town was better prepared in 2015. You can also see the slideshow here.
A pair of swans swimming in an inundated park on the banks of the Shannon in Athlone, near the Golden Island shopping centre (which is slowly reverting back to an actual island). The river is expected to peak in the town this weekend.