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Mon 11 Nov 2009'Places never flooded before covered in water'
GALWAY:SOUTH Galway free range egg farmer Frank Commins says he has had many “Homer Simpson” moments over the last three days, since the Clarin river flooded into his shed, housing 5,000 hens.
Yesterday he was wading through three feet of water to feed the birds, but has now run out of meal as the roads around his farm in Clarinbridge are inaccessible.
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