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A MAJOR EMERGENCY plan is being invoked by Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council because of flooding in the region.
The co-ordination office is based at Tara Street fire station, where meeting were held on Monday night to decide on emergency measures for homes and roads hit by the flooding.
Dublin City Council’s flooding emergency line is 01 679 6186.
Tonight fears were growing for a man in his 20s – thought to be an off-duty Garda – who went missing in Co Wicklow while directing traffic.
Residents were being evacuated from some areas in Bray, while Cabra and Kilmainham were also both looking at resident evacuations.
Heavy rain in Dublin, the east coast and other parts of the country also wrought havoc with public and private transport.
These roads are currently closed:
One lane of the M1 motorway is closed between the airport and Balbriggan. Gardaí have also advised that Junction 13 (Ballinteer) of the M50 is still impassible, and motorists are advised to avoid the area.
A section of the M1 is closed northbound just after the Port Tunnel, and diversions are in place. Gardaí are advising motorists to avoid all unnecessary travel due to the flooding, though waters are beginning to slowly recede.
Luas services on both the red and green lines were disrupted, while DART and Iarnród Éireann services have also been affected by the heavy rain lashing the country.
Sligo Intercity and Maynooth Commuter services were suspended due to flooding at Broombridge; while Belfast Enterprise and Northern Commuter services were suspended due to flooding at Clontarf.
Those wondering about how they will make it to work tomorrow should be aware that Irish Rail have promised to tweet updates from 5.30am tomorrow on their Twitter account: @irishrail.
The following video from Martin Murphy shows the river Poddle bursting its banks at Ravensdale Park in Crumlin. The river Dodder has also burst its banks and flooded parts of Ballsbridge.
This evening Dundrum Town Centre was also evacuated, with some parts of the complex under water. See Daniel Hunt’s video of it here.
The following Dublin Bus routes have been affected:
Live updates on road closures in the capital can be found on Dublin City FM’s @LiveDrive twitter account.
Other parts of the country are also being affected by the bad weather, with reader @patsyferry warning that there is flooding on the N13 dual carriageway at the junction to Dry Arch roundabout and that extreme care in needed on all roads in Donegal.
Motorists are also being warned off certain roads in Wicklow, including the Sally Gap, all roads to Valleymount and Lacken. Ballyfolan, Oldcourt and Blessington village are impassable.
For immediate updates on road closures, check AA Roadwatch or follow TheJournal.ie’s Twitter list of accounts with details on the floods – you’ll find it at @thejournal_ie/flooding.
- Additional reporting by Susan Daly
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Seems like this is going to become a regular occurrence, surely these people know exactly what they are doing, legislation is seriously required…………
@Julie: Agree they know what they are doing, but already have laws and legislation regarding the use of drones near airports and other locations. The people doing this just don’t care.
@Julie: as I said in the previous event… they need a mechanism to stop it. It’s already illegal. Ireland has plenty of laws, enforcement is lacking.
@Richard: good drones can’t fly in restricted areas, they literally land. But cheap ones with no GPS can
@Richard: It’s the DAA’s responsibility. They have bird scaring processes on site. Time to start drone watching now.
@Dave Harris: unfortunately cheap clones of brand name drones like DJI are readily available and there are a lot of 5tup1d people around
@Dave Harris: Maybe drones without GPS should be banned or heavily regulated then.
@Tomo: Totally agree, flight safety for commercial airlines far outweighs the ‘amusement’ of toy drone enthusiasts.
Obviously the little guy got a quad off Santa and now for his birthday his delightful family bought him a drone. Took 10 months from Alibaba but arrived just on time .
@Murph11: this is exactly it. The law unabiding citizens of Ireland.
@Murph11: a fresh batch of m0r0ns, allowing the lowest common denominator to dictate. There needs to be more gene splicing with particular people.
Good luck waiting for sleepy Eamo to spring into action
You are surely not expecting Eamon Ryan to do anything are you? You have to wake him up and remind him where he is first.
A major crackdown on these muppets is long overdue. Putting the safety of flights and their passengers at risk is a cowardly act.
Pellet gun. Job done.
@Brian Costigan: Shotgun. More chance of hitting it.
@Brian Costigan: shotgun you mean
Far right nut job no doubt.
I wish media would stop reporting these events, sadly leads to more copycat events.
Shoot them down. People will think twice then
@Kevin O’Brien: they will only buy twice. This would be a badge of honour for the m0r0ns and their drones.
Are they sure it’s not a Chinese Spy balloon. Where are the photos?.
@Padraig: Here is your solution DAA. You can thank me later.
@Padraig: a bargain at just under 11 grand in fairness! Often have had to fork out 15 or 20 grand for one!
I might be off the mark here, but I could see this issue being the fault of airlines pulling out of here altogether if it persists.
@Declan Moran: that’ll never happen. There are drone incidents all over the world, The drone industry will suffer way before the airline industry does.
Why are they not shot down .
Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight,
We need to get them birds of prey that are trained to take them down.
Ask the UN for ground to air missiles or use a pop gun . They can not be that hard to hit. Overthinking this, I think.
Get the American Air force to shoot them down as spying balloons
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