Temporary reprieve then for South Dubliners from Madonna?

If you can’t read this, your electricity is still off

Hope your monthly problems sooth themselves out soon , being from Cork is a another major problem that a large amount of counselling and therapy will only scratch the surface of that terrible affliction , God Bless x

OH MY GOD NOOO, south Dublin without electricty for a whole 90 minutes, did everbody make it through it ok,? This is a national emergency we need to call the dail back from their holiday recess. Sorry folks but the country is truely beyond repair now.

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Still happening too ;-(

It happened out on Northside this morning for a much larger number of customers but then again we don’t count out here…heathens lol

Seriously…………is this a wind up ????? You’re reporting about a power outage that lasted for 90 minutes !!
Is it because it happened in Dublin ????

We lose electricity at least once a month for on average 10 minutes to 6 hours as well as have our water supply turned off with no notice for anything up to a day at a time with no explanation or apology afterwards…………………………..all public services might I add !!!!

Will I send an email the next time it happens in North East Cork so you can write an article about it ???

Thanks for letting us know whats happening. Clearly the lady from Cork has not experienced house alarms ringing for two hours!!

Bleedin’ moanin’ culchies!!

Theresa Theresa……….it’s a decent story affecting the capital. Let us know if it happens in Cork…snore

Slow news night??

Typical country person complaining bout lack of services

It was funny when the Merrion Inn (The M1 loike) caught fire and it was national news! lol

Look at what Ryan Murphy says:

Yes Kieran, because a well loaded urban (and underground) electricity infrastructure, complete with volatile and ever changing load patterns is just like a socket circuit n your house.

My comment: This area is suburban not urban, , and lightly loaded on a warm Tuesday night in July. The demand for electricity is around its lowest at this time.

He says: The fault was most likely identified relatively quickly (often help from consumers and the public is invaluable in this regard), and the subsequent outages were due to sectionalising, and operational switching to restore supply.

My comment. The fault lasted over three hours, not 90 minutes as the ESB claimed, Patronising waffle about the public is just that. The public cannot see faults on an underground network. The public needs truthful information not mendacious spin.

He says. .No operative in their right mind, would, or would be allowed to, close onto a known fault, specifically in an urban setting, and while they’re standing in front of the breaker (switch).

My comment stands. I never said the operative stood in front of the breaker – by which he means what the rest of us would call a circuit breaker, in effect an electronic fusebox. Cheap shot to contradict what was not said.

Now two questions:
Question 1: does Ryan Murphy work for the ESB or an associate company?
Question 2: why does the ESB not admit what its customers know – the supply was interrrupted over a period of three hours?

Comments ignore the fact that the outage lasted much longer than 90 minutes, and when the power was restored, it went off twice again in the next 90 minutes where I live. The on/off syndrome is very similar to what happens at home when you get a fault blowing a circuit, you switch things off and switch them on again to see what is blowing the fuse, the kettle or the toaster or whatever. Saying it was a fault in a substation as the ESB did is like saying that when a fuse blows or circuit breaker trips at home that is the problem. That’s the alarm going off, not the cause of the problem,
ESB didn’t know where the problem was, and was trying to narrow down the problem for the best part of three hours. Meanwhile ESB networks website claimed 67 homes affected. God between us and all harm.

Update. Spoke to ESB Networks today. Admitted that the outage lasted three hours, not 90 minutes as stated, and said the ESB spokesman who said 90 minutes was plain wrong.

Public monopolies must be straight with customers.

Job done. Thanks to thejournal.ie for getting the facts on the record.