High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Irish flash floods are a series of flash floods that occurred across the island in August 2008. The floods and related weather conditions have primarily affected the following counties; Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Antrim, Carlow, Galway, Laois, Louth, Meath, Kildare, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Offaly, Sligo and Donegal. Parts of Ireland's large urban centres, including Dublin and Belfast, were submerged, whilst Carlow town has experienced some of the worst flooding in the country. No one has been reported dead yet although the body of a 31-year-old Polish man was recovered from the River Fergus in Ennis on August 18.