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LAST UPDATE | 21 Oct 2024
THERE ARE STILL around 3,000 homes and businesses without power following Storm Ashley, mostly in the west of the country, according to the ESB.
The number has come down from the roughly 16,000 reported earlier today, which had fallen to 8,000 by the afternoon.
ESB says it has made good progress and that crews and contractors remain deployed in impacted areas including Mayo and Galway.
Winds reached up to 80km/h in some parts of the country yesterday, with gusts of up to 130km/h.
The cleanup began today as the damage left by Storm Ashley was assessed.
This week’s image (and video) of the week is of Storm #Ashley, which brought strong winds, heavy rain and flooding to the UK and Ireland at the weekend.
— EUMETSAT (@eumetsat) October 21, 2024
Find out more at our website and download both the image and video here: https://t.co/t37LuvmYGv pic.twitter.com/Qwt3FnpBMW
In its first update this morning, Dublin Airport said winds had eased considerably.
“However, as a result of Sunday’s disruption at airports across Ireland, the UK and Europe, some knock-on delays today are inevitable as several airlines have aircraft out of position,” it said.
“A small number of flights have already been cancelled by airlines for today.
“Passengers due to fly today are advised to check with their airline for latest updates regarding their flight.”
In total on Sunday, airlines cancelled 81 flights, 39 go-arounds were performed and 34 aircraft opted to divert to other airports.
Some roads were closed in Northern Ireland yesterday, with a coastguard sharing footage of waves of water making the Portaferry road unpassable.
Video taken near Rossbeigh beach in Co Kerry yesterday evening show strong winds and flooding of the surrounding area.
🚨🇮🇪STORM ASHLEY HITS IRELAND!! #StormAshley
— Weather monitor (@Weathermonitors) October 20, 2024
Rossbeigh Beach Under Siege
Location: Reeks District, County Kerry
- Powerful winds batter coastline
- Heavy rain and strong gusts reported
- Rossbeigh Beach car park flooded
Stay informed! pic.twitter.com/vC7h8DSmxa
On Croagh Patrick yesterday morning, Mayo Mountain Rescue came to the aid of a man in need of assistance on the mountain.
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Roll on the general election….
@Matt D: why, if it’s simply looking like a continuation of the same govt for the next five years lol. FGFF+Greens are on 50% in the most recent poll.
@james rowan: it will be. He’s not running in the general election
Why would you want to be identified as a loser
The irony is that the reg in the picture is registered to a 1.5l petrol SUV……
@Toca Stories: No it’s not
@J B: It’s not. There is no vehicle on the Irish roads with that registration
@Ger Whelan: Yes there is – check any plate out here: https://www.cartell.ie/ssl/servlet/beginStarLookup?registration=242g1234
@Laois Weather: NCT.IE says no.
@Toca Stories: It’s a fake plate for the photo… how is that hard to understand?
@Alex: it was a joke. It comes up as a petrol t-toc on motorcheck
@J B: says its a petrol t-roc on motorcheck. Anyway it was just a joke on my part
@Ger Whelan: A vehicle registered in the second half of 2024 is not due its first NCT until the second half of 2028, so it’s not in the NCT database yet.
@Laois Weather: good work i like seeing a smart ass proven wrong…well done
@Stephen Wallis: it’s still a 2024 VW t roc 1.6 150bhp, check Mick’s garage and the other motor parts websites.
The climate cult even have to use diesel cars for their ads lol
@Ger Whelan: NCT also says my car doesn’t exist because it’s not due an NCT for another couple of years.
@Ger Whelan: 242G1234
VOLKSWAGEN T-ROC STYLE 1.5 TSI D7F
Engine Capacity: 1498
Colour: GREY/BLACK
@John Doe: Yes it is A VW Troc petrol
Automatic
@Ger Whelan: Carzone …. Value my car …. Insert Reg !!
@Toca Stories: So that’s the fecker who stole my number plate last night.
@Toca Stories: please explain ?
Another gimmick brought to you by the Greens.
Is that all Sleepy can think of
@Martin Finnerty: This, in place of infrastructure. amazing.
What about the people that get up at 3am to put this country running in the morning and then at the end of the week end up with small wages because of exorbitant tax? Take Bow Mr Ryan because I’m going to wipe your greedy Greens OUT at the GE2024
@Tommy: the “early riser?”… Leo is long gone by now.
@Tommy: you’re going to wipe them out would imply you voted for them last time and you wont this time, no? What did you expect them to do in government, they’ve been sticking to their manifesto mostly.
@eoin fitzpatrick: I don’t vote for establishment that have ruined this country and I certainly don’t vote for the Greedy Greens or Liebour or SF either.
@Thesaltyurchin: I collect milk from farms at 1am starts to avoid being left stuck in rush hour.
@Tommy: Because you wake up early doesn’t mean you make this country go round.
@Tommy: I pay 130k€ in taxes early, that’s what makes the country go round. Everything is done to people paying their taxes.
@Alex: well done you, probably never done a hard graft in your life
@Alex: er… fair play, but you’re clearly not bothered where that money goes? If for argument sake either you or Tommy were to disappear who would people miss more? Probs the milk delivery eh?
Adios muchachos.
5 years in government, public transport an even worse disaster but they keep pushing the carriage before the horse.
Jeez, he’s hellbent on leaving his imprint on something. The last sting of a dying wasp from a dying hive!!! The Greens are kaput!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: Having the green bar on the reg plate is useful for traffic wardens checking on parking at EV charging points. A lot of non-electric cars park in front of chargers, blocking their use by drivers of electric vehicles. The bar on the plates is ultimately paid for by the car’s purchaser, so the public purse is left alone. I think it’s a good idea and is already being used elsewhere in Europe and in the UK also.
Desperate DEFINITELY need this lot gone
Where are these zero emissions vehicles? Does emissions of the build and the emissions and worse from the raw materials used and rare earth metals harvesting not count now
@Michale Kane: in fairness it says zero emissions at the tail pipe, full electric or hydrogen
@Allo Allo: it’s actually Greenwashing..
@Allo Allo: the electricity used isnt Green
@Allo Allo: EVs don’t have a tailpipe.
The sooner the greens are stuck in the nearest brown bin and taken to the nearest recycling planet and dumped into a crap heap where they belong….the safer the taxpayers will be financially
@Tom Newell: Nah. You can’t recycle toxic material.
@Tom Newell: they’ll be gone in a few weeks, what taxes the greens introduced are we going to see removed?
@eoin fitzpatrick: maybe… but they won’t get that new pollution tax sneakily in b4 they gone, now that even both FG and FF said it was ‘ridiculous’. Simon even had to say he was ‘Anti-Carbon’ not ‘Anti-Car’
@Mies Valkenburg: oh dear, that’s terrible, isn’t my new “green reg plate ” non recyclable, Titanium batteries and all that, bunch of wasters, but me thinks, it will be a repeat of the last government, let’s face it, FF/FG with cu@&s, sorry, greens making up the numbers ,joke!
@dave clarke: Not if we don’t reelect The Greens.
That would give me some small amount of satisfaction.
@eoin fitzpatrick: No taxes will be removed. FF/FG are delighted the Green Party are taking the flak for these taxes. Remember when you are at the ballot box that FF/FG are equally as guilty as the Green Party.
I love my petrol car, petrol lawnmower and petrol hedge trimmer, my coal and turf fires and oil central heating!
@Lefty Tears: Ok, thanks for letting us know that useless bit of information.
Thanks to the Green Party we have the cleanest lakes and rivers, huge forested areas and some of the best thought out public transport systems in the world. Thanks guys
@Freda Peeple: either trolling or a green party member….
@Freda Peeple: thanks to 100 years of ff fg we have none of those
@Freda Peeple: thats some high class trolling
@Matt D: Let me help you out. They are not a green party member
@Matt D: i think theyre being sarcastic :)
@Matt D: Is there a difference between the two?
Sarcasm is hard for some.
@Matt D: Relax. He’s being facetious. At least, I hope so.
@Matt D: I’m being sarcastic, useless bunch. Ireland is worse off in every metric after their run in government.
The virtue signal brigade will be jizzing themselves.
@Dere: Lots of giant €100k+ bullet proof SUVs around D4 gonna be happy for sure.
do they issue a patch to sew on your jacket sleeve also
Ireland should be doing everything to become independent for its energy requirements. This would have been a bold step requiring huge plans for windfarms (on and offshore, tidal energy and investment in the development of these and other technologies).
The Greens could have led this. It would have addressed their mission plus provided value for citizens. None of this happened, there is no roadmap. Instead we have a party leader standing around with reg plates, detached from financial reality and trying to tax problems away as the only solution.
@Bat Boy: Huge windfarms destroy the countryside and also deliver zero when the wind doesn’t blow, thus requiring vast amounts of gas fired generators to kick in to stabilise the grid. Huge windfarms only line the pockets of the companies because the EU grants them to charge the same rates as gas fired plants. Wind energy is of no financial benefit to the consumer whatsoever.
Tidal Energy is, pardon the pun, dead in the water with little or no developments as it’s so costly to implement.
The only decent green tech is solar power. Every suitable house and building rooftop should be covered over as it’s reliable and cheap to deploy with the payback for investment rather quick. We should be using some of the Apple Billions to invest so householders (not middle men or large corpos) get to save on their energy costs.
As for your final paragraph, spot on.
@Laois Weather: Totally agree on solar.. they should be implementing projects to add solar to domestic houses and farms without restrictions.
@Michale Kane: But you see if we all had solar , that would save us money, reduce our need for other Private Electricity Energy Suppliers .. and that simply would not be allowed…
@Laois Weather: You might not have noticed if you live in city lights, but it’s dark for 12-16 hours in winter and overcast the rest, so the solar system is of very limited use then.
And the electricity to power the vehicles is created by faries using the magic zero emission electricity tree.
Oh big deal a green flash. Oh look at me my car is a low emissions vehicle I’ve got a green flash yours is only regular bog standard. That’s some legacy the greens are leaving behind. Surprised the greens never brought in an NCT for motorbikes and push bikes
Vancouver expects to be the first city in Canada with an electric fire truck. The electric fire truck costs $300k more than the diesel model. Pumps 40% less water and needs a diesel “extender” engine to make it useful. The future looks bright.
@Eileen Kelly: Canadians eh !
What a load of malarkey. Another scam from the Greens and Government to sell more cars and raise more taxes.
An answer to a question no one asked. Or cares.
Lol…. A desperate attempt to sell a few more EVs. Cars for the gullible…
@Regular John: the powers that be tried to encourage ev ownership but people arent having it. Government will take out the big stick after the election and severely penalise petrol and diesel car owners to a point we will all be forced to take out loans to buy ev’s we dont want.
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: Unfortunately I fear you are correct. I’ll be hanging on to my diesel as long as I can, not interested in EV rubbish!
The same bloke that encouraged people to buy diesel engine cars a few years back.
You would swear he knows he knows his stuff.
Seriously this is what the government has the civil service working on, thousands of adults and kids homeless, God knows how many are waiting medical treatment, sick people waiting days & weeks on hospital trolleys, if this is a joke is a fairly sick joke
did you see the prices on the cars compare to the north ?
organised robbery.
electric cars are ok for the rich and the loan addicted
As motor tax is now based on emissions, are we to take it that cars with zero emissions plates will pay no motor tax ?
@Tommy Roche: They’ll change it to kW, miles travelled, or both.
@Tommy Roche: No! EVs are €120 to tax, have been for years
Another bribe
We’re copying the UK as usual…
Good idea.
It will deter car thieves from stealing them.
Stop now it’s just getting silly.
Copy cat system of the UK.
In the name of good what the fcuk difference is the colour of the reg plate going to make
@Pj Browne:
Sothat everyone will know that you’re a virtue signaller. It will save having to post it on social media
Eamonn legacy of an environment wildly populated with vast herds of datacentres and a bit of green insulting tape that on a number plate…lol …
Identification is always useful in first steps… plus added bonus of not have to guess the type of car broke down on road lol….
Nothing green about the greens.
Now just be a politician to afford the car
Who cares
Nothing green about the volume of manufactured plastic number plates.
What next from this creature? Will I get a nice shade of gick stripe for my ten year old diesel? The mind boggles.
Zero Emissions
No such thing
This is another solution looking for a problem. Well done to the greens. Roll on the GE.
What a time to be alive!!
Ryan Will You Just Go Now And let us Live in peace
ya get half a stripe for hybrid! ;)
Yet ignore the atrocious low compliance of current registration plates on agricultural and construction vehicles and trailers on public roads. And another very popular trend in Ireland is the illegal “go faster plate” with shaded background, italic font, and number spacing deliberately minimised to disguise detection.
@4g4mPnNi: ah lad nothing that new .. we used cling film back in the day lol. …
@4g4mPnNi: Totally agree, I regularly drive in the UK and Continental Europe & non compliance with reg plates is non existent there. All road traffic legislation needs to be enforced and the sale of non compliant reg plates should be outlawed
The big happy head on him.as if it was his idea?
But yet again we have just copied and pasted from the UK?
Great idea – quick, easy and effective.
@Ben dover: and when all vehicles are emissions free we can change it again! Yay! Hopefully we didn’t pay for it! lol
How much did the consultation cost. To come up with a green slash
Why is that effing turd still getting media attention?
Plus added bonus of removing the guess work of whom to point and laugh at !! ;)
This Green Party have done more to Damage genuine Green Alternatives by turning the Electorate against them and their Policies because of silly PR stunts such as these Green Plates that mean nothing to anyone. It could be a good addition to a Green Vehicle if it would grant you Free Access to Public Pay Car Parks or Free Tolls on Motorways.
@Owen Mc: yip…. their biggest success has been in converting many tree-huggers to tree-burning.. and proving every thing they do ends up increasing costs of living and costs of working for the plebs, in exchange for more hassle and work and less services for the plebs.
Zero emissions but not net zero.
I feel yet another green tax coming for motorists who don’t have these new registration plates. They’ve certainly worn me down with all the extras, in motoring terms, I have to pay. About 10 years ago I voted for one of their party, who, as it turns out, didn’t get in. Never will I do that again.
Save the planet by swapping number plates brilliant
Just looking at the comments here makes me think that if the greens are not wiped out in the election (very possible!) they are certain to be a part of the next government.
They are absolutely ideal as mudflaps for FFG, and any other government, for environmental policies that the EU will impose.
They will get the blame regardless.
@P. J.: Whether you like it or not, a well-deserved blame. They used the fear that FF and FG have of SF, the fear that drove them together in the first place, to get whatever they wanted. For the minority party of a coalition, they wielded way more power than they should have been allowed but used the threat of pulling out and forcing another election to get what they wanted. How else do you explain some of the policies implemented. It’s funny how very little has been passed lately since the election talk started. As to the EU, while they may be the one imposing some of the policies, the Green Party TDs and MEPs are meant to be representing all Irish people and it never crossed their minds to look for delays in implementing such policies due to the continuing cost of living crisis.
How dare they introduce something that is both harmless and optional !
@Jack Hayes: don’t forget utterly pointless
No idea who would even bother with this unless it entitled free toll pass or something? Good for company / delivery vehicles maybe but not domestic cars.
They will need more than a green flash to persuade me
All this toool has done is give Boy Racers something else to take the mickey with… now we’ll have VW Bora’s with remaps and black smoke sporting the new green plate for the craic….
Good for you! Thaaaaanks!
While they’re at it could the Gardai start cracking down on the number of non compliant number plates on Irish registered vehicles, including their sale
Just ignore the fact electric was the most popular fuel for car in October according to sales data from the industry
@Dee Bracken: the ev sales are reducing year on year. Watch who is providing your data.
I like the colour choice
Anything to get the sheep to follow :/
We need to eliminate the ‘greens’ completely this time from influencing Irish policy and politics this GE, along with all their taxes, charges, levies and hair brained schemes!
More Greenwashing!
That’s the cheeky bugger who stole my number plate last night so
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