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SOME 8,000 HOMES and businesses around the country are still without electricity this morning in the wake of last week’s massive storm.
Additional crews from the UK will begin to arrive today to help the reconnection effort. They’ll be sent to the worst affected areas — including Kerry, Newcastlewest , Tipperary and Enniscorthy.
Yesterday, supply was restored to almost all customers impacted by the storm in Waterford, Portlaoise and Cork City.
In its latest update this morning, ESB Networks said over over 3,500 faults still existed on the network, and that it would be “well into the week before” power is restored to all customers.
According to the update:
The damage to the network caused by thousands of falling trees and flying objects was worse than even first anticipated, resulting in the restoration process being slower than for normal storms.The additional wind and rain causing more faults and soggy ground conditions also hampered the speed of the repair work.
Realtime information can be found at the ESB Networks Powercheck page:
People are being reminded of the dangers posed by fallen power lines, and a particular warning is being issued to parents — as children may be playing outside during mid term break.
Customers with information on network faults that pose a risk to the public can contact 1850 372 999. Information on damage to the network can also be logged at report-damage-to-esb-networks.
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having read this article and in particular the final paragraph i think the heading is misleading and should be changed.
The use of statistical language here is also sensationalising the subject. While the probability may be 8 times larger, if the probability of a young man passing mutations is 1/10,000 and the probability of elderly man passing them on is 8/10,000 it is still a rare event.
Need more info to realise the true meaning of these “stats”
Heard another one yesterday saying older mothers made better…whatever actually can’t remember…there’s much crap ‘surveys’ our there, parents please ignore, make you afraid to have kids!!!
older mothers were more likely to have kids with better speech and less accident’s because the kids are more precious 2 them. wat bullshit like who’s kids aren’t precious 2them? I’m 21 and my 2 halfyear old son has brilliant speech and can hold a conversation. a 45year old I know has a child the same age and he’s had stitches in his head a dislocated wrist and I can never understand a word he’s saying… js sayin.
Eire if your child’s speech is on a par with your text speak rant you may have to reconsider his intellectual prowess
Charlie Murphy. seriously? fool
Mutations are the reason the human race has survived. Harmful mutations generally disappear in a population. The rest imbed the ability to adapt to changing environmental stress. Look at sickle-cell syndrome in Africans which helps resist malaria.
The potential for autism and bipolar is being hugely exaggerated by this research.
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