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AROUND 200 PREMISES are still without power due to the impacts of Storm Éowyn.
The National Emergency Coordination Group (NECG) met again today to co-ordinate work on restoring power, water, telecommunications and other services that were disrupted by the storm last month.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the country experienced power and water outages, with many having to wait days or even weeks to be reconnected.
Power has been restored to 768,000 ESB Networks customers in total.
However, around 200 premises are still without power.
“ESB Networks is mobilising all available resources to restore power as soon as possible,” a statement said this evening after the NECG meeting.
ESB Networks have been continuing to work to restore supply to these customers over the course of today and expects that this work will be substantially complete this evening – but some people will be without supply overnight.
Similarly, Uisce Éireann is working to restore water to the “final few customers” without water.
The statement said that nearly all of Uisce Éireann’s customers have now had their water supply restored.
Uisce Éireann teams are continuing to try to restore supply to any remaining areas with disruptions.
Telecommunications were also impacted by the storm but service has been mostly restored.
As of 10am today, 0.34% of fixed service users are without services and 0.14% of mobile service users are experiencing some level of degradation of service.
“Repair and restoration work has returned normal services to most customers and several fixed service operator networks have been returned to normal service levels,” the statement said.
“That notwithstanding, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications recognises that many areas in the north and west of the country continue to be affected by outages, which have been caused by extensive damage to infrastructure in rural areas,” it said.
“Operators of fixed line services have indicated that it may still take a number of weeks to fully restore their services due to the significant damage caused.
“Restoration of full services has been hampered by the complexity of the repairs required to restore damaged infrastructure. Telecommunications operators continue to engage with ComReg and report outages across their networks.”
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everybody,.. may we just take a moment to say quick thanks to the staff at the journal for giving us an article straight after that Kenny badger story so we can give that Kenny prk a roasting..
Pat the plank got some ba//s….listening to him pontificate on radio for years now he pulls this stroke….tw@t
@David Cotter: are you gay(
@Barry Spoon: ahh Barry is that a crime in your world
@David Cotter: he’s the most patronising shoite bag I’ve ever heard.. on 500,000e of our money while at the top of rte. where is the pontificate man..? I’d hire him to sort out rte..
@Stiles: all his friends still reside in Rte…not the man for that in any way
@Stiles: get your facts right, Pat works for Newstalk not RTÉ so none of your money gojng into his pockets. You probably don’t pay your licence anyway. Dole troll!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: any chance you’d actually READ his post fully before going off on girly hissy fit??? He said ” while at RTE”
@Stiles: It was actually circa €950k at one stage…
@Donna Fallon: christ above Donna.. the rte top staff have gotten away with daylight robbery.. I’ll have to have shots to sleep now… hope you’re well..
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: ollie no harm done. I often write comments on this site and then curse the fact theres no delete comment option.. which begs the question why can’t we delete comments… comon journal play fair.
@Stiles: Lol and that’s before expenses etc. It’s actually comical that the ‘talent’ were and are payed more than even life-saving neurosurgeons (that’s not a slight on any other profession BTW) but no no, they deserve their millionaire salaries for enjoying the sound of their own voices… Thank you and hope you’re well too x
Jaysis I’d say the badgers are looking forward to getting away from living beside that plank …
He’s always been known locally as Pat (Badger)Kenny,I thought everybody knew that.
Hope he never has cause to save a skunk
Pat didn’t care too much about the aul badgers feelings he disturbed when he decided to move into the area himself.
There are 200 in my immediate area alone – more rubbish from the ESB / Government. There must be at least 5,000 premises still without power.
@Toby Thedogk: definitely. It’s interesting when you know people personally with no power but their outage is not on the powercheck website….they are receiving update texts but not shown on the map….me thinks there is a little manipulation of numbers going on!
Keep voting for Fianna Fail, things are grand
@Barry Spoon: Oh yeah,the opposition would have stopped the storm.
I have batteries that I would have been happy to lend to people in medical situations after the storm, but I did not know who to ask.
The hospitals? The HSE? Why was there no national outreach for supplies and assistance? I was horrified when I read later that some people died because they were not able to use their medical devices.
That’s third world like, we were better than that back in sixths and seventies,
If only they had an IPA centre on the same Power line…
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