Guardian: Large tracts of the south and west of Ireland stood submerged last night as 300 Irish troops, backed up by helicopters and boats, were on standby to rescue more people caught up in floods. As more than 18,000 homes in Cork prepared to start the week without water supplies after flooding damaged a pumping station in the city, the overall cost of the damage was being calculated. Experts were estimating the extreme weather could cost the country up to EUR100m, breaking the EUR98m record …