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Updated at 3:50pm
TRANSPORT SERVICES are returning to normal after record rainfall in Dublin caused serious flooding and led to major disruptions this week.
All Luas services are operating normally this morning. Dart routes are operating as normal, but Bayside Station remains closed – passengers should use Sutton or Howth Junction stations instead.
Irish Rail says that its routes are operating as per normal today following earlier issues this morning involving the Belfast to Newry stretch, Bayside Dart Station and a signal fault at Clonsilla.
All Dublin Bus services are operating across its scheduled routes.
Road conditions have improved, according to AA Roadwatch, but Gardaí have said that traffic on Wolfe Tone Quay inbound to the city is reduced to one lane due to the flood damage.
Motorists are requested to use an alternative route if possible to ease congestion and are advised that traffic on the M50 southbound between the Lucan and Red Cow junctions is heavy as a consequence.
Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council decided yesterday afternoon to stand down the major emergency status to standby mode. The councils said last night that the Principal Response Agencies, including the gardaí and the HSE, will continue to work on flood recovery.
Dundrum Town Centre, which suffered serious flooding problems on Monday evening, is set to reopen this morning at 10am but says that some stores will open later today and others will remain closed until later this week. The car park can be accessed from the usual entrances.
Met Éireann says dry conditions are expected across many areas this morning, with heavy showers expected along coastal counties.
Up-to-the-minute transport updates can be found on our curated Twitter list – @thejournal_ie/flooding.
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Practice wetting the bed. That’ll shift ye.
ha ha ha .. :))))
Turn on the electric blanket and wet the bed….. That’ll definitely shift ya!! :-)
I set the alarm clock at least 10 minutes fast just so I get a bonus snooze!
good one Big Bird ..;)
My 5-year-old son is the best alarm I’ve ever had.
We’ve heard of worse reasons to have children. Anything to stop snoozing right? :)
I just turn off the alarm on my phone and go straight onto journal.ie to read for a few mins… it wakes me up enough to where I just roll out of bed and into the shower… its a nice routine.
Funny….thats exactly my morning routine as well!
Me too :)
Despise alarms!!!
So do I, I find they make it difficult to break into houses.
We forgot to include the 8th step: “If all else fails, have a child. There is no snooze button on a baby” AKA the nuclear option. :)
I think most snoozers just need extra time to just wake up hence 2/3 hits of the snooze button – anyone who jumps out of bed as soon as the alarm goes off were never properly asleep in the first place.
Yeah it can often feel like you need the extra time to wake up in the morning, but after a couple of weeks of actually getting up immediately with your alarm, this can change as your habits change.
* choose * which is more important to you….snoozing or getting up with your alarm. That ……is a no brainer
Ha…and what’s the choice?
@Darren….clearly snooze on. Even if it postpones the madness by fifteen minutes….totally worth it!
I like that. Choose one way or the other. Snooze Academy probably isn’t for you then. Unless you actually would prefer not to snooze and do other nice things with your time in the mornings.
Snoozing rates pretty high on my list, so it trumps all the other nice things I could do! #snoozeacademydropout
Two alarms set for the same time in opposite sides of the room always works.
As horrific as that sounds, I have a feeling that’ll get me out of bed when the they go off!
I set my alarm most mornings and actually have yet to hear it go off.
Normally I am wide awake about half an hour before it goes off.
I tried do without it and damm well slept it out.
I have a serious hangup about being late and people that are late.
Me too.. I usually wake up completely 5 or so mins before the alarm goes off.
By contrast if I don’t actually have to be up I can sleep for my country..
Wake up at 7 alarm goes off at 8. No matter what I do I cant sleep past 8.30 on a week end as I’m wide awake. Try as I might I just cant sleep in.
There’s no defeating the dreaded alarm, you throw across the room, muffle it with a pillow, try to turn it off it ALWAYS buzzes ten minutes later
That’s not the off switch, that’s the snooze button..
Where can I find the snooze button on my 2 year old and my 5 week old???????
Congratulations Brian, but that snooze button will be permanently in the off setting, for at least two decades. Still, it’s mostly good, and in the long term, you wouldn’t change them for the world.
For years now I’ve always had an alarm clock at the other side of the room. Really does the trick to get me out of the bed on time. Just make sure the alarm is obnoxious enough so you can’t sleep through it comfortably.
Brilliant article, nice to see other people share my inability to get out of bed in the morning! Great tips…I must by an alarm that brightens the room. Also a great idea to do something that’s positive in the morning. Thanks for sharing this article with us Snooze Academy! Keep up the great work….would love to read more tips like this from you. I’m your latest recruit!
I have lie ins every morning :)
Great tips to help get back on my 2013 health buzz!!
Snoozing is an integral part of my working day. Might try some of this….beats setting my alarm 15 minutes early to allow for snooze time.
I always set my alarm for 30 mins before I’m due to get up. So if I have to get up at 7 I’ll have an alarm go off at 6.30 and 6.45 – then I’ll get up when the 7am one goes off – I find I love the idea of knowing I have an extra 30 mins in bed and it eases me into the morning!
Ahh the beloved snooze button..why would I part with thee?
just wish i could set a alarm for someting to get up to these days
Snooze Academy :) Amazing idea! Especially at this time of year when feeling the motivation to get out of bed is slim to none! More top tips please Mr Ryan!*
I’m a hardcore snuuzer!! And a daytime napper! I refuse to loose the snuuze, purely because of the smug feeling I get tormenting my other half by having a minimum 5x 5min alarms going off!! Am I a bad person?!! :-)
I used to feck my alarm across my room but I realised if I wanna get up early, just go to bed early! Only real way to do it
My boyfriend has four alarm clocks all set to go off two minutes apart.
He sets them for an hour before he is due to get up,it’s a nightmare. He never hears them at all.
When am not there I’ve also to ring him to get him up.
Wish someone invented an alarm that gives you a punch !
Love this! In need of some serious help to battle the snooze button!
So true about snoozing not being real sleep. Will be trying ALL of these things this week – any help to battle the buzzer always appreciated
Great article. I so bad getting up snooze snooze snooze then o crap the children have school.
Pity we can’t press the snooze button again in 40 years time when the bondholders payment is due..
How in god’s earth did you think that you could jump from Alarm’s to bloody bondholders?!?!
Having the phone at the other end of the room helped me snooze easily 50% less. Another good one is about setting the right alarm time: when I enter a good hour before having to leave that means 30-40mins snoozing time guaranteed.
Loved the ZzzeEO position xD
Darren Ryan is the Tony Robbins of our generation. Great teeth too.
hahaha – it’s photoshopped! ;)
Airbrushed you mean ! :))
Both. ;)
:))
Yeah just get up lazy shi*es !
“Action… Send an email to a friend overseas”. Who wrote this drivel?
Good luck for tomorrow morning folks! :) let us know how you get on!
Set your alarm to talk radio instead of ‘Beep…Beeep…Beeep’…. I find listening to the latest state sponsored mess via morning Ireland will make you so furious you won’t be able to go back to sleep.
I have not set my alarm in years. I go to bed early and wake up early and naturally. If you wake up tired you ain’t getting enough sleep.
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Good one, tell us another.
Bren, I’m five hours behind in the US. :)
Years ago I had an old fashioned wind up alarm clock with bells when that thing went off you had no choice but to wake up.
why bother? keep curtains open. one eye , winter, rain.. roll over!!
I tend to snooze for like 1 and a half hours, No wonder I’m always rect tired in work!
“No.2 practice waking up”,
Snooze Academy is for me. I’m terrible at waking up in the morning and cherish my beloved snooooze button. One thing that has helped me is meditating the night before, but I need som serious help here. Great idea!
Practice waking up? What for? In case I forget how to wake up? What a load of cr@p
Oooo not a morning person!!
Not a 5.30 Monday morning alarm call person – maybe I need to practice more :)
That’s a load of me bollocks.!
Any tips on how to actually get to sleep on a Sunday night? Dread it every week, then cant sleep and hence needing a snooze on Monday morning.
Maybe try some Mindfulness Mark. Great for helping to relax before bed.
The Association for Chronic Insomniacs is not amused by all this flippancy !!
“Sleep cycle alarm ” avail from app store u put your phone under your pillow and half an hour before your alarm is set to go off it activates and if it thinks you are close to waking at any stage in that half hour it sets the alarm off !! Sounds crazy but it actually does work
No snoozing for me this morning (despite the horrible rain and cold outside which would normally be ideal snoozing conditions)… Great article!
I’ve got a tip! It’s called harden the f**k up!
Zzzzzzzz …..
Piss all over the bed and I meet my ‘son’.
Great article – a good start to the morning definitely helps set a positive attitude for the rest of the day and I often feel I’m already a round behind when I eventually get out of bed after hitting the snooze button and turning over. Will definitely be applying the advice here, cheers
Until Snooze Academy opens up in Paris… more tips please! I am a passionate snoozer.
Just get well facking pished.
Lately I’ve been getting pretty good at getting up when the alarm sounds. But disabling the snooze altogether would be a disaster. On the groggy morns where I try to hit snooze, I would end up turning it off, none the wiser.
So I can forget waking up on time at all without snooze.
This should be an app. Is there one already, yet me know?
The 9 at 9, the 5 at 5, 10 best… , 7 steps, 20 most… you know it’s possible to write an article without having to do it as a numbered list
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