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STORMS AND HIGH winds caused high drama for two vessels off the Irish coast in the last 24 hours.
One vessel, the ‘Arklow Raider’, ran aground as it was leaving Drogheda, Co Louth late last night in gale-force winds. The Irish Coast Guard told TheJournal.ie that the ship – which is carrying a cargo of cement – is still stuck in the port. It had been bound for Swansea in Wales.
It had been hoped to tow it away at high tide this morning, but there wasn’t a tug boat big enough available at the time to help move it. The spokesperson said:
Unfortunately it is still there. The plan was to move it today but they weren’t able to manage it as there was no tug big enough. The vessel and cargo is completely safe but whether or not it got moved was down to having the correct weather conditions and having a tug of appropriate size available.
It is hoped that the boat will now instead be moved at high tide tomorrow morning. The Irish Coast Guard said that the crew were safe and didn’t need to be rescued.
The Coast Guard also confirmed that it is investigating an incident in which a ship lost some of its cargo in stormy seas just after 1am today. The ‘Red Duchess’ lost a portion of its deck cargo of logs three miles south of Carnsore Point, Co Wexford, according to RTE. The logs later washed up on the south-east coast of Ireland. The ‘Red Duchess’ had come from Scotland and was due to dock in Youghal, Co Cork.
Last night’s weather system caused severe flooding in England with Devon and Cornwall suffering badly. Ireland escaped much of the damage with the east of the country getting some of the highest winds. Met Eireann recorded winds of 30 to 50 knots an hour in Dublin – with 55 knots an hour recorded in Malin Head.
There was some flooding on the M50 southbound between the Sandyford and Leopardstown exits and at one stage parts of the Naas and the Long Mile Roads but the AA was this afternoon reporting that all roads were free of floodwater.
Met Eireann however has issued a gale force warning for southeast winds on all Irish coastal waters and again for tonight.
Northern Ireland is dealing with flooding at Banbridge, Rathfriland and Craigavon and some ferry crossings have been cancelled.
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All well and good to making jokes but judging by the picture, the ewe suffered an awful death. If your dog is off leash or out of your control and in a field where sheep are, then it’s not going to end well if they’re spotted by a farmer with a loaded gun! Your dog and YOUR fault if it gets shot.
@selfsustainable:
Unless the dog owner also owns the live stock then they have no place having a dog loose around sheep or cattle, its irresponsible to do so.
Its not a big ask to expect dog owners to have dogs on leads when around other animals,
I wouldn’t for a second leave my dog loose while walking on mountains or farm land unless I owned the land or livestock on it.
That’s a given Barry.
Absolutely selfsustainable. People have no idea the damage their darling dogs can do to sheep. I’ve seen it first hand. People need to be more responsible & not let their dogs just wander as they please.
Never the fault of dogs. Always their owners.
@@UK:
Farmer is still justified in shooting the dog if its not on a lead though.
I say this as a dog owner.
Anybody leaving their dog loose around lifestock they don’t own is an idiotic,
Unless it’s a Pitt Bull. Devil dogs. Nobody to blame but bad doggy genes maybe.
Unfortunately farmers will shoot with no mercy, and a dog will be shot that was doing no harm. As a avid walker and we always bring the dogs on leads it never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who let their pets roam freely. Some of the owners should be on leads.
@Paul Somers: If a farmer’s livestock is threatened they are right to shoot.
@Paul Somers: Some people are able to train their dogs that they have more control with their mouths then they will ever have on a lead.
@Paul Summers: even well trained dogs should be on a lead around livestock. It’s just responsible dog ownership. Sheep can come to harm just by panicking on sight of a dog, especially if the flock has previously been attacked. Dogs should be nowhere near flocks of sheep close to lambing time as the risk of sheep aborting their lambs is too great.
@Angry Gaminour dogs As a dog owner I don’t believe your stupid comment, our dogs and previous dogs would never be good enough to allow/free off lead where therr are livestock. Regardless it is simple sense to keep dogs under your control by having it on a lead unless you own the land end of story. Our dogs are complete pets but they are still dogs.
Sounds like the work of “the beast” to me… They say it’s as big as four cats and has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better and it lights up at night and it’s got four ears, two are for listening and the other two are kind of back up ears and it’s claws are as big as cups and for some reason it’s got a tremendous fear of stamps, Mrs Doyle was telling me it’s got magnets on it’s tail, so if you’re made of metal, it can attach itself to you and instead of a head, it’s got four arses.
What’s more, it’s yawn apparently sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.
This is why farmers have the right to shoot dogs on their land
I never allow my dog off a lead unless she is in an enclosed area where there are no other animals except her. In otherwords the house, back garden
Sheep kills are awful but to ask dog walkers to stay off the 3000 sq km of Wicklow mountains including 200 sq km of national park is OTT hysteria. And I live up here. And walk my well trained well disciplined dogs off their leads on national park land.
@All Hail Bukowski: they’re not asking them not to walk, they’re asking them to be responsible and put the dogs on leads when near other animals, that’s not a big ask to ask folk to use their brain.
People are not being asked to stay off the land All Hail but simply to keep dogs on the lead. Obviously not all dogs are well trained.
Doh, they are but that’s overkill. Keep them on a lead.
I always let my dog off the lead when I’m walking him. He goes off by himself sometimes and chases things, and I can hear him barking far away. He joins me agin after five or ten minutes though, so it’s fine
@calvin candie: How stupid can you get? Hard to believe you admit your off lead dog goes off chasing things, did you even read the article?
It’s the dog walkers that are vicious! They have to stop those dog walkers. The dogs are fine.
Bear Grylls?
@Diarmuid: nope, FENTON!
It definitely wasn’t my Chihuahua anyways…..
Sheep is going to be killed anyway. Farmers annoyed that dog beat them to it.
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