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LAST UPDATE | 13 Aug 2022
A STATUS YELLOW thunderstorm for the entire country has been issued for tomorrow.
Temperatures are expected to hit over 30 degrees today with a Status Yellow High Temperature warning for the country remaining in place until 6am on Monday.
The thunderstorm warning will remain in place until 3am on Monday.
Met Éireann has said today will be hot and sunny with highest temperatures of 26 to 31 degrees.
A new August record of 31.7°C was set yesterday in Oak Park, Co Carlow, a measuring site which also held the previous August record of 31.5°C set in 1995.
While there may be some cloud in the afternoon bringing the chance of an isolated thundershowers, in most areas sunny conditions will remain.
There will have a light northeasterly wind but there will be a sea breeze which will keep temperatures slightly lower near coasts.
The warm conditions will remain this evening, with temperatures staying above 14 to 19 degrees.
Most areas will be dry with clear spells but a few showers will develop in Ulster and Connacht and some of these may be heavy. Winds will be light and variable and patches of mist and fog will develop.
Sunday will be another hot day with temperatures reaching 25 to 30 degrees.
Most parts of the country will be dry and sunny during the morning but there will be a few showers in northern areas, possibly heavy.
There could be scattered heavy and thundery showers in the afternoon and evening in some areas across the country, and there is a possibility of spot flooding.
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If Wiki is accurate, Tory Island has a population of less than 150 people, some of whom have moved there for lifestyle reasons.
Tory is beautiful, and well worth a visit if you haven’t already been there.
But it would be interesting to hear something about the cost of subsidising the ferry service so we could have a clearer idea about how justifiable the islanders demands are.
@Kieran Magennis: good point..but no form of transport would survive in ireland without government subsidy as population is too small.its just the way ireland is and will be
@Kieran Magennis: you know some people move to many parts of the country for lifesytle reasons.
You could argue anybody outside of Dublin is living in their location for life style reasons.
I guess the government shouldn’t spend money on them eh?
@Barry Somers: Of course the government should subsidise public transport throughout the country. The issue in this case is by how much and whether the service as originally planned was reasonable.
They allready have a fast ferry..some brsins to come up with that idea!! Maybe if the department released the contract and tendering process thats been hidden away and not available under FOI they islanders wouldnt be so suspicious of wrongdoing which is clearly happening in the scandal
@Jono:
Was the pervious contract made public?
@P.J. Nolan: yes
Báidín Fheilimí…. did anyone give Feilim the opportunity to tender?
Sure he only goes to Gola.
They should have a vote for independence like Catalonia so they can do what they like
The date, mentioned above, gives irony to this carry on
It would be cheaper to build a bridge.
@Owen Lynch:
A 11 km bridge in the north Atlantic?
I’m not sure if anyone has read the house that disappeared but it seems his brother is the one running the ferry service that didn’t get the contract .. It reads like an Agatha Christy novel. http://donegalnews.com/2016/11/court-strikes-appeal-tory-hotel-company/
@Sos: no its not..a company from gweedore currently operate the service
Tóraigh go brách!
Sound. The training course “in order to blood future passenger-ferry skippers” sounds a bit sinister though. Can’t they just read Bram Stoker so they know what to expect?
@Fiona Fitzgerald: Or they could just apply through the CAO for Nautical Science in the NMCI.
In Kilkee not Kilkenny-predictive text. Neil Forde is no more a captain of anything that I am
Neil Forde? His last escapade was advising the OPW and inserting a condition in boatmens licences that the courts granted an injunction against. He ignored a guy capsizing a recue boat and throwing the rescuers into the water….on a river ha ha, then recommended the skipper for a permit to bring passengers to the Skelligs. A few months after he was notified of the capsized boat exactly the same happened in Kilkenny and a volunteer drowned. He retired very early from the Dept of Transport. Did he leave or was he pushed? Compare the department nonsense here with his statement and the nonsense on Valentina Island Ferry that only travels one mile each day.
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