Alternative transport methodspublished at 12:11 Greenwich Mean Time 31 October 2023
With cars left abandoned on flooded roads, some people in Newry have taken to alternative methods of transport in order to navigate the city's streets.


Businesses in Newry, County Down, have been damaged after the city's canal burst its banks on Monday night
Portadown, Downpatrick, Templepatrick and Ballynahinch are among the other areas badly affected
More than 12,000 sandbags have been deployed to the worst affected areas of Northern Ireland
The Met Office has cancelled a yellow rain warning for NI for Thursday as Storm Ciarán hits other parts of the UK
Luke Sproule
With cars left abandoned on flooded roads, some people in Newry have taken to alternative methods of transport in order to navigate the city's streets.
Patrick Fee
BBC News NI in Camlough
Rain is still falling in Camlough as local residents begin to venture outdoors.
The town’s main road remains partially closed this morning with abandoned cars half submerged in the flood water.
Residents are also assessing the damage to the 3G pitch of local football team, Camlough Rovers FC.
Paul, whose 17-year-old daughter plays for Northern Ireland, has volunteered to help with the clean up. He has described the flooding as "devastating".
“There was supposed to be a Halloween camp here on Wednesday but that’s not going to happen. There would have been maybe 70 children here Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,” he told BBC News NI.
“There will be nothing for the kids all this week“
“We are a charity here and we’re just panicking. We don’t know what way this 3G is going to work out, whether it is going to need resurfaced.”
Asked if the club could afford to resurface the pitch he said “no, definitely not”.
“That would be big big money.”
Barra Best
BBC News NI weather presenter
Before Monday’s rain, Northern Ireland had already received 152.8mm of rain in October.
That is almost one and half times (145%) the normal amount of rain for the entire month.
This figure will increase once the rainfall totals for the 30th and 31st of the month are added.
October 2022 was also very wet - in fact the 9th wettest on record - with 179.1mm of rain.
The wettest October on record goes back to 1870 when 246.6mm of rain fell.
The main road between Belfast and Dublin, the A1/N1, is also flooded.
This photo, taken a near Carrickdale, County Louth, shows traffic stopped near the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Since our last update on road closures, the Department for Infrastructure has now published this additional information:
County Armagh
Scroll down to see what other roads have been closed.
Killowen in County Down recorded 75.4mm of rain over a 24 hour period, making it the wettest day on record for at that weather station since it began collecting data in 1997.
The wettest day on record for Northern Ireland was 31st October 1968 when 158.9mm fell at Tollymore Forest, also in County Down.
Here are some photos from Newry town centre, one of the worst affected areas due to the town's canal bursting its banks overnight.
The latest road closures according to the Department for Infrastructure are as follows:
County Down
County Armagh
Much of Newry city centre is under water
Good morning, you join us on a particularly wet and windy Tuesday as we report on disruption caused by flooding across Northern Ireland.
The worst hit areas currently are counties Armagh, Antrim and Down where an amber warning for heavy rain was in place overnight until 09:00 this morning.
Most of Northern Ireland will remain under a yellow warning for rain until noon, with another yellow warning coming into effect from 21:00 this evening until 09:00 on tomorrow morning.
You can read our coverage so far on the impact of the flooding here.