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A STATUS YELLOW weather advisory will come into place for the country at 6.03 this evening and remain until 12 midday on Saturday.
Met Éireann is warning that “very cold and wintry weather will develop from Wednesday onwards”.
Falls of sleet and snow are expected from this evening, with the heaviest of the fall expected over Ulster, Connacht, north Leinster and west Munster.
Breakdown
Today is expected to be cold and rather windy, with a mix of sunny spells and showers. Afternoon temperatures may be as low as 5 degrees with strong and gusty winds.
Showers will turn increasingly wintry tonight with sleet and snow, freezing temperatures and a risk of thunder.
Tomorrow will be bitterly cold tomorrow with scattered sleet and snow showers, and the ongoing threat of thunder. Highest temperatures will only reach between 1 to 3 degrees with a brisk northwest wind.
Tomorrow night will stay cold and blustery with further sleet and snow showers and the ongoing risk of thunder. Frost and ice are forecast with lowest temperatures of 0 to -2 degrees.
Friday will see scattered wintry showers through the day with snowfall mainly in the north. Once again, thunder may coincide with some of these showers. Temperatures will remain extremely low with highs of just 3 to 5 degrees.
Met Éireann says temperatures are expected to rise to between 5 to 9 degrees on Saturday with a mostly dry day with good sunny spells.
Sunday will also be mostly dry and bright and a return to more normal temperatures of between 8 to 10 degrees.
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I made this point the other day when we were talking about Irish Rail, how much longer are we going to have to subsidise these costly and inefficient state transport providers?
Has anyone travelled by Bus Eireann on a lengthy journey recently?
Its absolute torture.
I don’t use BE any more, 3 hours to Wexford town from Dublin is an absolute joke! Expensive, dirty, slow and the rudest drivers iv ever had the ‘pleasure’ of encountering!
Martian you should travel with Wexford bus company , free wifi on all their 4 star air-conditioned buses, and polite drivers bar 1 dude
I do now Peter. Cheaper and gets me there faster!
Time to deregulate and privatise transport.
Add health care and education to that list and we can form a coalition
You want to privatise the provision of education? Seriously?
Well yeah or decentralise it heavily letting parents and teachers desire the curriculum and exams.. No taxes on any incomes, simply a consumption tax
Peter, we’re majorly off topic but there are some massive flaws in your idea, IMO
For a start the whole of society is the ultimate consumer of education and also you need an over all consistency in levels and content to make allow employers to judge between the outputs.
If the journal want to bring up the topic of general privatisation re Merkel’s “suggestions” we could probably discuss further.
Well I’m a libertarian at heart, and yeah I’d like that !
Agreed, but those from ballygobackwards will certainly find themselves without public transport. Thats the difference between public owned and private, needs of people vs profit margins. I don’t think we can justify owning and running loss making transport companies, when the country is going down the pan.
Well school transport alone is subsidized for 180 million a year and no austerity imposed on bus eireann at all and they a upping prices as well as cutting routes and prices…..law onto themselves.
Change regulation for bigger advertising
As far as I can see the busman gets €500-600 a week. Most of the company losses are on the advertising side of the business. There should be more live timetable terminals to increase consumer satisfaction. Maybe introduce advertising under the live times!
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