Scott Blyth, general manager of both Rogues Nightclub and Claddagh, shows some of the damage to the floor caused by rain water which got in through the door and the manhole covers in the toilets. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0663716)

BUSINESSES in the Lower Pollet are faced with repair bills running into thousands of pounds after heavy rain caused flooding in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A clean-up operation was under way after the downpours had left up to a foot of water in some places. It is the fourth time in as many years that some had been affected.

Water poured through the wooden-floored Claddagh bar and into Rogues nightclub. The maple sprung dance floor in the club will have to be ripped up.

‘We’ll get through the weekend, but the floor will have to come up next week,’ said proprietor Martin Rogan.

He said water not only flooded in through the front door but also through the manhole covers up in the toilets.

‘I opened the door to the disabled toilets and it was full of leaves which had come up through the covers,’ said Mr Rogan.