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A post office on Ushers Quay, Dublin. Leah Farrell

Some welfare offices closed and An Post services disrupted due to Storm Ali

The Department of Social Protection is advising people to get in touch with their offices tomorrow to schedule an appointment.

A NUMBER OF Intreo Centres and branch offices are closed or only offering a limited service today due to Storm Ali.

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection have advised that people get in touch with their office tomorrow and reschedule their appointments.

The list of affected offices are:

  • Achill Intreo Office
  • Clifden Intreo Office
  • Dun Laoghaire Intreo Centre
  • Thurles Intreo Centre
  • Ballyconnell Branch Office
  • Boyle Branch Office
  • Castleblaney Branch Office
  • Castlerea Branch Office
  • Tubbercurry Branch Office
  • Ballinamore Community Welfare Office
  • Granard Community Welfare Office.

An Post released a statement this afternoon saying that its mail and post office services in the north and northwest of the country have also been affected.

“Heavy winds and subsequent storm damage meant disruptions to service in more than 60 post offices while mail deliveries across a wide area of the North and North West were temporarily disrupted during the height of the storm,” it said.

An Post is working to restore full services as soon as possible.

A Status Orange wind warning was in place until 1pm today; a Status Yellow warning is now in place as Storm Ali sweeps across the country. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Galway were expected to be the worst affected.

Winds are forecast to be strongest in the west and northwest with mean speeds of between 65-80 km/h and gusts of between 110-130 km/h.

This morning, a woman’s body was found after a caravan was blown off the side of a cliff in Co Galway.

Around 186,000 homes and businesses are without power due to Storm Ali; transport systems have been disrupted and people have been advised to keep an eye out for falling trees.

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    Mute Brian Shea
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    Jun 14th 2021, 6:37 PM

    I find that there is problems after problems with this minister who won’t make decisions….

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    Mute Da Dell
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    Jun 14th 2021, 6:48 PM

    @Brian Shea: Some spindo lunes have even suggested her as a possible leader of FF, due to her allegedly great work as minister of education lol,

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    Mute Da Dell
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    Jun 14th 2021, 6:52 PM

    @Da Dell: Ah sure it was written by the master of propaganda himself, Coleman .. you couldn’t make this up ..

    “Top of the class – Foley is now ‘in the mix’ as future FF leader”

    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/top-of-the-class-foley-is-now-in-the-mix-as-future-ff-leader-40114308.html

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    Mute Martin Coughlan
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    Jun 14th 2021, 8:07 PM

    @Brian Shea: are problems

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    Jun 14th 2021, 9:01 PM

    @Da Dell: Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly! What a pair! Jesus wept with their daily tripe.

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    Jun 15th 2021, 9:02 PM

    @Brian Shea: In one school I know of the teachers asked either very easy questions or gave the student the questions in advance. Norma cannot be held responsible for such irresponsible behaviour. We have had problems with the Education system for years, esp Irish and Ms Piggy was obviously asleep on the job with Uni’s. If anyone is to blame it is the teachers unions. They are dogged, refuse to reform and are only out for their self interest. Ask yourself – How many really good teachers can you remember from your schooldays – one hand – right. And the really bad ones are still teaching. Remember the govt agreed with them to open schools, gave them E364m to do so and then they kept throwing spanners in the works. I am no FF fan but I do think she is genuinely trying. A work in progress

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    Jun 14th 2021, 6:48 PM

    Ahh the Foley Fuster cluck continues year 2 now and still no set plan or structure and problems all the way

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    Jun 14th 2021, 7:06 PM

    Can’t she do anything right?

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    Jun 14th 2021, 7:37 PM

    @Jack Cass: I’d be very quick to agree with you re the minister but a lot of this comes down to teachers not administering the exams as instructed and schools not recording the exams properly. These schools and teachers have left the entire education sector down in my opinion.

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    Jun 14th 2021, 7:50 PM

    @Dec: complete and utter tripe but ok.

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    Jun 14th 2021, 8:30 PM

    @Jack Cass: This isn’t her fault. It appears teachers who were oral examiners in many cases failed to follow instructions.

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    Jun 14th 2021, 8:34 PM

    @Dec: There are some issues that I would have with teachers myself, but not as much as I have with this Minister and the Dept. of Education, they had all last summer to plan properly and plenty of other opportunities when schools were off but no, it was and has been a farce.

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    Jun 14th 2021, 9:03 PM

    @Da Dell: Not the Dept of Ed’s fault. This year. everything is in the hands of the SEC.

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    Jun 15th 2021, 12:47 AM

    @Dec: Teachers are trained to do their jobs, which is to be teachers, not examiners.
    Oral Examiners have training every year, plus years of experience .
    This year, Foley did it on the cheap by not recruiting examiners, and by foisting it on class teachers instead.
    This was always going to backfire. Please stop blaming teachers for exam disasters which are not of their making.

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    Jun 15th 2021, 1:35 AM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: Who signed off on no external examiner this year ? Was it the Teachers, the SEC, the Dept. of Education or the experienced Councillor Foley ? When was that decided, was it not part of the great plan ?

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    Jun 14th 2021, 9:40 PM

    Blaming teachers again. Easy bloody targets.

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    Jun 15th 2021, 1:52 AM

    Could the examiners not have conducted the orals virtually?

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    Jun 15th 2021, 3:03 AM

    How can the teachers not have conducted the exams correctly? They are paid to do their job and just needed to follow the instructions. The fact that this problem is so widespread and so many students affected is shocking.

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    Jun 15th 2021, 7:55 AM

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