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Video: ESB pole flattened as hay bales tumble from truck in Ardee

A truck shed its load of hay bales causing damage to Bridge Street in Ardee yesterday morning.

CCTV FOOTAGE HAS captured the moment a truck shed part of its load of hay bales, causing damage to a street in Louth.

The falling hay bales knocked over an ESB pole and damaged several shop fronts on Bridge Street in Ardee in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The driver of the truck did not stop at the scene.

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No one was injured during the incident which happened outside Hamills of Number 19 pub at 6.45am.

Owner of the pub Mark Conlon told TheJournal.ie:

The shop next door’s window were smashed. Luckily my windows weren’t, I don’t know how though they’re very old.

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He said the only problem the following day was the traffic issues as a stop and go system was put in place as s the road was cleaned and the electrical wires were repaired.

According to Conlon power only returned to the pub last night around 9.00pm as repairs were ongoing throughout the day.

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Conlon said a tractor pulled the majority of the hay away yesterday morning and then the council swept away the remaining hay.

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    Mute John Pepper
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:12 PM

    Araghdee hey.

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    Mute Ruth Corbally
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:18 PM

    *hay……couldn’t resist sorry

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    Mute John Pepper
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:44 PM

    Haha how did I miss that one.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:49 PM

    Ardee Gardai

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    Mute Phil O' Meara
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:11 PM

    Good Lord! This is going to break the internet….#pray4ardee

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    Mute Alan Ryan
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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:56 PM

    29th of September, never forget.

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    Mute Mercurial 49
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    Sep 29th 2016, 8:47 PM

    The Gardai in Ardee are still searching for the truck driver but have said “it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack…..” Ok, I’ll just get my coat

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:47 PM

    Truck never stop. More than likely a northern driver who’ll never be caught.

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    Mute king Tut
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:41 PM

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaardeeeeeeeeeee

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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:19 PM

    In other news, my hat blew off on the way to work this morning.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:30 PM

    The difference is your hat wouldn’t have killed someone had it landed on them.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:35 PM

    You don’t know that. He could working odd job.

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    Mute king Tut
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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:42 PM

    You obviously haven’t seen the size of his head.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:57 PM

    Yep. I look like a planet landed on my shoulders.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:01 PM

    Well John you were certainly talking through Uranus

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:03 PM

    Oh I can’t keep up with these witty comments.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:07 PM

    Hold on I got one – if a planet landed on your shoulders you’d be talking through your anus too?

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    Sep 29th 2016, 7:18 PM

    Uranus!

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    Sep 29th 2016, 11:55 PM

    Hey have you seen his hat?

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    Sep 29th 2016, 8:29 PM

    Obviously wasn’t a Christian Bale.
    Condolences to the family of the electrician from Warsaw, but at least Ardee finally got wireless.

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    Sep 29th 2016, 6:48 PM

    My local council would be weeks getting around to cleaning that up.

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    Sep 30th 2016, 9:36 AM

    I can just imagine the call the to gards now,

    “Its that ourdee gardai hey, der is a hay bale was going down da road hey”

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    Mute Éanna McClean
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    Sep 30th 2016, 9:37 AM

    @Éanna McClean: Correction

    “Is dat de ourdee gardai hey, der is a hay bale was going down da road hey”

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    Mute Brian Dineen
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    Sep 29th 2016, 8:17 PM

    That looks like straw rather than hay, any CCTV elsewhere to get truck reg plate?

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    Mute Rory J Leonard
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    Sep 30th 2016, 11:42 AM

    Would some big player be trying to corner the hay market too, up that country!

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    Mute William Willis
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    Sep 30th 2016, 2:39 AM

    I knew a turfmen from there long ago.

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