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NO DISRESPECT TO anybody named Agnes, but we can all agree that it’s a good name for a storm. Particularly one of this magnitude.
Agnes fell upon Ireland this morning, causing widespread disruption to public transport and power outages across the grid. Airlines have cancelled 31 flights so far, including 17 departures and 14 arrivals. Thousands of homes are without power, according to ESB, with the figure at 11,000 as of early Wednesday afternoon.
Met Éireann has advised that the Status Orange weather warning affecting the south coast will elapse this evening at 7pm.
Here we have some of the photos and videos that have emerged in the midst of Agnes’ wrath.
As is custom, let us begin with a picture of this trampoline which was blown off course near Portlaoise. We hope it gets to its destination safely.
It took longer than expected but I have received first image of a trampoline free in the wild🙈
— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) September 27, 2023
Photo taken near Portlaoise as #StormAgnes hits pic.twitter.com/vXU1043rhz
There has also been plenty of footage from one corner of the country to the other of choppy waters battering homes and coastlines alike, as shown in the below videos from Kenmare in Co Kerry (taken by Noreen Russell) and Co Down (taken by Nicole Quinn)
Scenes in Kenmare, Co Kerry this afternoon during #StormAgnes (credit: Noreen Russell) pic.twitter.com/6rCBRcPXWz
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) September 27, 2023
Storm Agnes now battering Dundrum on the County Down coast. Video from Nicole Quinn. #StormAgnes pic.twitter.com/ptHTFEIjJJ
— Barra Best (@barrabest) September 27, 2023
Another rather spectacular video taken at Hook Head in Co Wexford shows the effects of the storm.
The gusts are very strong and the sea is now extremely high as we approach high tide right now.
— Hook Lighthouse (@hooklighthouse) September 27, 2023
Please do not take risks on open coasts this afternoon folks.#StormAgnes #StaySafe #HookLighthouse @CarlowWeather @SouthEastRadio @beat102103 @Wexford_People @wexfordcoco pic.twitter.com/MqLsy35AMC
Meanwhile, emergency services crews in Dublin and Cork have had to deal with the fallout from fallen trees, some of which have come down perilously close to homes.
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Dublin
Perhaps the most dramatic footage so far comes via Cork Safety Alerts, who captured the roof being blown off a building near Youghal Strand.
A roof has just come off a building at Youghal Strand. Emergency services are en route. Avoid the area if possible! #StormAgnes pic.twitter.com/3Kn8HPTrRD
— Cork Safety Alerts (@CorkSafetyAlert) September 27, 2023
If you have any dramatic footage of Storm Agnes or its effects, make sure to send it to tips@thejournal.ie or direct message us on our social media channels.
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As a contrast, our newly appointed Taoiseach has frequently disputed the correlation between poverty and ill health and premature mortality. Despite the fact that Veradker is a qualified medical practitioner, his political ideology that poverty is not a concern of government, blinds him to the hugely detrimental impact of poverty on human health.
Diets in poorer area plays a bugger role in life expectancy….
@Paul: When we see that obesity if a factor in First World “poverty” we should wake up and see that PC fake analyse is keeping the poor, poor. Certain political parties need to keep a pool of poor people as voters to get themselves elected and these are the real enemies of the poor.
The private practice model of GP healthcare is not financially viable in poorer areas. Timely Access to GPs is more restricted in the case of poorer people than for those who are more comfortably off.
@Jenny mcCarty: You can qualify that statement, I assuming.
@Tony Daly: quiet the opposite. Workers have to arrange time off work to visit GP and pay 50 to 65€ as they don’t have medical cards.
@Geraoid O’Helidhe: Great, all workers should have them and the public housing close to jobs if required.
Well done for highlighting health inequalities. Not new but larger ignored in ireland.
See the Black Report – very old doc now
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/XXMM-JMQU-2A7Y-HX1E?journalCode=joha
Also this affects everyone to some degree as there is a social gradient.
It’s all about choices….
@Gavin Huban: To an extent it is but you have less choices to make or certain choices have a higher cost as a proportion of your income. To eat healthier might be very difficult to afford or even get depending on where you live.
Slightly off topic but one glaring indictment of our health service is that even for private patients, waiting times are only “a matter of month”.
In this country we have now a new norm of having to wait months even privately except where you are a Minister or politician.
@Ger Healy: I completely agree. There is something to be said for a competitive American model of medicine where doctors decide to help people, make money because of their qualifications and expertise, and not be grossly overworked. When I have had to see a specialist, after waiting a very long time for the appointment, I wonder about the waiting list of people behind me and how that must affect the health of the doctor being put under so much pressure day in and day out.
@Ger Healy: The narrative that people are definitely corrupt if they are politicians is wrong and threatens democracy and is similar to the widely held belief that all media are liars.
Put it this way…………………….have you ever seen a bookie riding a bicycle?Go figure!
@Jenny mcCarty: Have you ever asked yourself why you need these gross simplifications, Jenny? I pay a mortgage and work, but I acknowledge this as good fortune, as well as the work ethic and attitude I was lucky enough to inherit – in the long run I’m far better off in all respects. Stop whining – you may need to see the world in such simple terms because you are frightened by its complex problems and just want it to go away. For you and all of us it will, eventually, and this will have been your life – is this the best you can do?
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