A group opposed to flood defence plans for the city are due to take their fight to the Supreme Court tomorrow.
Save Cork City are taking the action to try to stop the Office of Public Works from developing their current Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme.
The OPW say the plan will protect against a one in one hundred year flood from the River Lee and will include efforts to retain and restore the city's historic quay walls...
However, Save Cork City have described the project as a 'walls plan' that won't protect the city and are calling for a tidal barrier to be constructed at Little Island or Tivoli.
A group of UCC architecture students yesterday staged a demonstration in the city against the OPW's plans.
Speaking to RedFM News, one of the organisers Conor Ryan says proposals for a system of pumps to prevent the flooding seen in the city on Sunday are not reliable:
"I'm sure you've seen the videos of it, amd it was crazy to see. The flooding there didn't even come from the river so you can only imagine if it was was built off on the quay side there, how it would just capture all that water and it would just pool and it would be an added problem. They aren't a stationary solution. They're something that needs to be maintained."
Met Éireann have rejected criticism from the Lord Mayor of Cork City who said that the forecaster didn't give enough notice of Sunday's rain.
The Echo report that Lord Mayor Deirdre Forde said that Cork City Council didn't have enough time to prepare as the Yellow Rain Warning was only issued the day before.
However, head forecaster at Met Éireann Evelyn Cusack said that heavy rainfall was forecast well in advance, and that forecasts on Thursday and Friday predicted heavy rain for Sunday.
