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Dart services resume after heavy rain caused delays

Severe flooding at Blackrock and Glenageary caused delays for Dart services earlier.

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Updated at 2.45pm

DART SERVICES WHICH were delayed earlier due to flooding have begun to resume with some delays that are expected to ease.

Darts between Bray and Dún Laoghaire were cancelled after heavy rainfall caused difficulties, but have resumed again in the past hour.

There are long delays for road users in Co Meath, according to AA Roadwatch.

There’s heavy traffic on both ways on the N51 Navan/Drogheda Road approaching Slane: those delays are expected to worsen throughout the afternoon as Guns N’ Roses perform at Slane Castle tonight.

Although traffic is reportedly light around the city centre and moving well on the M50 according to AA Roadwatch, there are serious delays at Swiss Cottage at Santry, where traffic is reduced to one lane (reported at 1pm).

Yesterday, the Road Safety Authority warned motorists to take extra care on the roads today following a forecast of heavy rain.

Met Éireann has placed status yellow rainfall warnings in place for the following areas and times:

  • Leinster, Cavan and Monaghan – Saturday from 3am until 3pm
  • Connacht, Clare, Cork, Kerry, and Limerick – from 9pm this evening until 6am on Saturday
  • Donegal – Saturday from past midnight until 6pm.

Here’s the latest look at the rainfall over Ireland today:

Met Éireann rainfall Met Eireann Rainfall Radar Met Eireann Rainfall Radar

Read: Motorists warned about ‘greasy roads’ as heavy rain forecast for weekend

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:19 PM

    I must have the most childish sense of humour because that had me in stitches!

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:27 PM

    You’re not alone. I got a great laugh out of that.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:41 PM

    Me too Sam. Hilarious.
    I’ve no idea why I read them with a Jamaican accent playing in my head.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:07 PM

    He’s talking Jive, like in Airplane

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:18 PM

    Was it leprechaun language

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    Mute Sam
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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:49 PM

    Molly oh god a Jamaican accent makes even funnier! I need to step away from this article before I’m committed!

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    Mar 17th 2015, 7:45 PM

    A happy Gock Dinna iPhone to all flash drives today

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    Mute molly coddled
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    Mar 17th 2015, 9:27 PM

    Welcome to my world Sam :)

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    Mute when
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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:25 PM

    That doesn’t surprise me given the exaggerated upper class accent he has affected since he became president. Does he think his natural accent does not befit the office? In his recent trip to England he sounded more Received Pronunciation English than Irish.

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    Mute Muireann Murphy
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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:52 PM

    His accent has nothing to do with it! He was speaking Irish, the youtube subtitling gizmo was trying to reproduce the sounds in English…..

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:14 PM

    He always spoke like that. So what?

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:16 PM

    Maybe the subtitling software found itself burdened with the impossible task of deciphering the Irish language as it is spoken by someone with an accent associated with the British and former Irish upper-class.

    I dislike home more than any other politician in Ireland. It really irked me the other day when he suggested that the Irish people could feel hopeful for the future as growth was returning to the economy – if the government had followed the left-wing policies that he always advocates, naively, then there would be no growth and things would have gotten much worse.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:16 PM

    *him

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:55 PM

    I like to think of Michael D and the missus watching this and laughing their asses off.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:27 PM

    Almost as bad as his poetry.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 6:19 PM

    First time a politician made any sense on TV?

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:12 PM

    He looks like Mickalene from the Quiet Man

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:23 PM

    Or her man in Darby O’Gill

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    Mar 17th 2015, 7:06 PM

    Bloody hilarious!
    Is the video blocked?
    It’ll go viral if it’s not!

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:34 PM

    Well send them the proper translation then and stop whinging about it. Didn’t need a translation thanks.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 5:56 PM

    You ok hun?

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    Mar 17th 2015, 8:07 PM

    Read this back to the tune of Amhrán na bhFiann, it should be our new national anthem!

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    Mar 17th 2015, 10:12 PM

    In other words, Aras an Uachtarain didn’t bother their @rses uploading their own Irish subtitles. How incredibly lazy and half-assed, cos it only takes a couple of minutes to do that.

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    Mar 19th 2015, 2:51 AM

    With Enda being an ex teacher as well lol.

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    Mar 17th 2015, 11:22 PM

    That’s hilarious !!! Although it’s also to be noted that the Irish you guys quoted is also spelt wrong in each section at least once!! #getanirishjournalist #callme

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