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LAST UPDATE | 13 Feb
A WET AND windy couple of days are in store, Met Éireann predicts, with the southeast to see the worst of it.
Status Yellow rain warnings have been issued for Cork and Waterford, with the Cork warning currently in effect.
The rain warning for Cork is in place from 1pm today until 8am tomorrow, while the Waterford warning will come into effect at 6pm this evening and last until midday tomorrow.
Heavier rain is predicted to spread northeastwards over Munster and Connacht through this afternoon and evening with spot flooding possible near the south coast.
Tonight, rain will continue to spread northeastwards to all areas, falling as sleet on high ground in Ulster.
Met Éireann has warned of possible spot flooding, saying that low visibility and difficult driving conditions are expected in counties Cork and Waterford.
Rain will be heaviest in south Munster and it’ll be windy with fresh to strong, gusty east to southeast winds. Temperatures could drop to between 0 and 6 degrees.
Tomorrow, Friday will start off wet and blustery with rain, which will gradually clear from much of Munster and Connacht with bright or sunny spells following in the afternoon, after the rain warning has elapsed.
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Putin thought it would be over in 3 days.
@Luke Littler: there’s only one group of people who own Trump, and Putin isn’t one of them. They have made it that you will get in trouble if you say their name.
@Willie Marty: no he didn’t, they said a couple of weeks and then negotiations started in march but the yanks and Brits said keep going, over 1 million Ukrainians dead and injured and a 25% smaller country and that’s where we are today. Stop watching rte, CNN and BBC their Full of fairy tales.
@brendan C5: You blame ‘the yanks and Brits’ for helping Ukraine to defend itself (as it is entitled to do), but not Russia for invading Ukraine?
@Brendan O’Brien: how did the Yanks and Brits help defend Ukraine then it was the yanks and brits (Clinton and Major) that took their nukes from them?
@Luke Littler:
They are scratching each other’s backs.
Whatever they do it will be for their benefit,and no one elses.
Aaah the poor auld UK and eu feel insignificant and want to be part of the negotiations, well their not needed, stick to what they know, that is high taxes on everything and woke!
@K O: why shouldn’t they be involved. They are the ones who will be most effected as they are bordering Ukraine and Russia and may have to pay for defending and rebuilding.
@James Leahy: Yes, Europe has every right to be concerned about Russian aggression.
@K O: You do know we are the EU, right?
@Chutes +++++: A peace deal has not been achieved.
The blame for the death and destruction lies squarely with Putin.
@K O: And free movement? Fancy applying for a visa every time you go to the Med on holidays? And free trade? Technicians and Engineers from France, Norway and the Netherlands were just here helping the ESB. And out of curiosity, what do you understand by the word ‘woke’ in the sense you have used it?
@Chutes Idiot: What deal? No deal yet.id welcome a deal, war should end ASAP but there is no deal yet. And a deal is very easy if you give one side everything. Will this deal be like NAFTA, where Trump reneged in just a few years?
@Me Me: ‘woke’ is understood as a person who is extremely politically correct. An example of a woke person would be the security at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017. They were asked why they didn’t stop the foreign man with the huge backpack and search it. They said they thought it would be racist to do that. Low and behold that backpack blew up 22 children to pieces and injured over 1000. This is why ‘woke’ is very dangerous.
@Me Me: Woke is an ideology in which a man can change into a woman simply by saying ‘Im a woman’s.
@Brendan O’Brien: Very simplistic!
@Joe Willis: More like, hiring 18-year old security guards who admit they didn’t know what to do is dangerous.
@Chutes Idiot: a putin apologist like Trump will get manipulated into the worst possible scenario for Ukraine and you fools will lap it up and think it’s the best thing since Tariffs
@Chutes Idiot:
President Biden got through the peace deal ,as usual Trump takes credit unless its something bad he’s done.
@Mary.E.:
He has taken credit for the deal between Gaza,and Israel,when it was Biden
He will make a deal with Putin,to plunder Ukraines minerals,and try to blame Zelensky when the peace deal falls through.
Trump said that he would bring NATOs proxy war against the Russian federation to an end, and that’s what he is doing. No one should be “shocked” as the journal is claiming.
@Declan Young: It is not a proxy war. It is an invasion of one country by another.
@Chutes Idiot: Germany got to experience more cultural enrichment today in Munich.
Another Religion of Peace atrocity in Germany.
Another mentally ill attacker of course.
Another lone wolf.
They’re not working together or anything.
Not related.
No more threat to the public.
Hopefully the Germans will wake up before they lose their country to extremists in the name of cheap immigrant labour.
@Paul: “Move on, nothing to see here”
@Paul: Reported on main TV stations tonight. A failed asylum seeker, known to the police.
More critically, neither Virgin nor RTE have reported that the MSC, which is taking place in Munich, have uninvited Reza Pahlavi. It appears the IRGC have a long reach, but I did not expect that!!
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