At the Curragh, Kildare this morning

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UPDATE:

RTE reports:

The National Emergency Coordination Committee has asked everybody in Munster and Leinster to be indoors by 4pm tomorrow and to stay there until midday on Friday.

It comes as Met Éireann issued a fresh red weather alert for Munster and Leinster for tomorrow afternoon through to Friday afternoon, warning of significant snow drifts in many areas.

It said: “Blizzard-like conditions will develop in heavy snow and strong easterly winds on Thursday evening and will continue Thursday night and Friday morning.”

All schools and third level institutions will close across the two provinces.

All Dublin Bus services will be cancelled tomorrow and Friday. Iarnród Éireann will stop services nationally from 2pm tomorrow and there will be limited Luas and DART services.

Public asked to stay indoors during red alert (RTE)

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25 thoughts on “School’s Out”

  1. david

    Imagine if Canada closed its schools or the ski resorts of France Switzerland had problems with a few cm of snow
    Just shows how inadequately prepared we are
    Mass panic in the cities with panic buying of bread
    Imagine if the money that was lost to business over this was ploughed into actually buying equipment and grit for the roads we could actually function as a nation
    Listening to Leo in the dail dose not inspire you
    Let certainly can talk he looks good but

    2. Andrew

      People panic buying bread is bizarre, I must say.
      In fairness, Canada gets this weather year in year out. We do not. Do you think we should have a fleet of snow ploughs at the ready, for a very rare weather event?

    3. Zaccone

      It would make no sense to invest the massive amounts of funds required to have a fully functioning heavy snow function capability in Ireland, along the lines of those found in Geneva or Toronto.

      It would literally be used once a decade here. There are far better uses for that money – funding hospitals, or schools, or anything else, that actually get used on a day-to-day basis.

    4. Nigel

      Seriously this happens once every ten years, and this is how we deal with it, there’s no panic, there’s just a certain amount of giddiness that goes with such a rare and disruptive event, for feck’s sake, get over yourself.

    5. The Ghost of Starina

      The last time Dublin had snow was eight years ago. It would be a waste of public funding to have the kind of infrastructure that Switzerland or Canada has — and then you’d be complaining about that.

  2. stephen

    Indoors by 4pm tomorrow and stay there til next day. Here’s a question, is any provision being made for public sector workers who are required to be in work, i.e. nurses and doctors, what are they expected to do

    1. david

      That’s another question , also seen as the national emergency committee has warned everyone to stay indoors do not go out will they be compensating businesses for lost revenue if the disaster dose not happen and compensate workers in the private sector for loss of earnings?
      Also all people told to get the double fuel payment from their local office
      Do they if they injure themselves by presenting themselves to claim it by breaking legs arms shoulders
      Get compensation or treatment in the hospitals that have no staff due to warnings
      The biggie is will Leo be wearing his snow socks

      1. Nigel

        This isn’t a disaster you twit this is an extreme weather event. Without these sensible precautions the costs and damages could be a lot higher. And yes there is a chance it might not happen, however small, but that’s weather for you. Honestly, I’ll take the bread-buying over this sort of exceptionally stupid whinging any day.

      3. Rob_G

        david, have you ever considered starting up your own LiveJournal so that we can be spared your scutter?

  4. Rugbyfan

    What is the point in spending money on grit and salt for he roads if it is not sufficient to keep the roads open. Dublin Bus should be running if said roads were correctly treated!

    1. ReproBertie

      It kept the roads open and Dublin Bus running today but the arrival of storm Emma tomorrow just makes this even more difficult. This is, obviously, a much bigger situation than they prepared for.

      Also, I think it’s clear that if anyone is planning a terrorist attack on Dublin we’re going to need at least 3 days notice, thanks.

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