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CROSSINGS BETWEEN IRELAND and Holyhead in Wales have resumed as the Welsh port finally re-opens after being shut since damage sustained during Storm Darragh.
Ferry services at Holyhead, which is owned by Stena Line, were cancelled in the lead up to Christmas and in the weeks since.
Parcel deliveries were delayed and thousands of people travelling around Christmas time were affected.
In December, Stena Line announced the port would re-open the Terminal 5 berth, subject to weather conditions, on 16 January.
That day has come and although only one of the port’s berths has reopened so far, the port says it believes it can manage the same level of activity as it had before the damage.
Ger Hyland, president of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA), has said hauliers are “very relieved” to see the port operating again, though he added there are still issues that need to be resolved.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland, Hyland said he travelled from Dublin to Holyhead last night but the ferry’s arrival into the berth in Holyhead was delayed three hours.
“Trucks on that ferry are going to be late doing their deliveries. Trucks sitting waiting in Holyhead to go back to Ireland are going to be late arriving in Dublin. But look, it’s a start,” Hyland says.
“Hopefully it’ll stay going but it just goes to show how fickle the thing is,” he said, adding that it will be a “mess” if the port has to cancel crossings again.
He also said that the port being closed since before Christmas has caused significant financial losses for hauliers.
“If we don’t get some sort of financial aid, we are definitely a sector that’s in trouble.”
Additional reporting by Press Association
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Good. Items I ordered for Christmas will now become birthday gifts
The old genocidal Israelis slaughtering as many ad they can before the peace talks & there’s people on here who think they’re completely justified in what they are doing.
@Luke Littler: They should be released immediately. What about all the Palestinian men, women and children Israel are holding hostages? What is your view in their ongoing captivity?
Its their devine given right to kill anyone on land gifted to them by god, in terms of the IDF handbook soldiers are ‘encouraged to kill gentiles’ so the idea that the give 2 F’s about their hostages is mad, they’re religious marters and will be remembered for liberating Israels’ land. Religion baby! it’s wild.
@Luke Littler: so you acknowledge one set of hostages and not the other, interesting.
Do you condone what Israel is doin in Gaza currently…and before you retort with the blindingly obvious response of Oct 7th, I do not condone that either.
Do you also swallow the lies that all of the schools and hospitals that have been blown to pieces have been housed by Hamas?
If you do you’re a very gullible man or just someone who is afraid of their shadow and just goes along with what the common narrative is cause it’s easier to do so.
@damien leen: It’s imperative that Palestinian terrorists be put to sleep, to avoid a breakdown of the ceasefire agreement brought about by President Donald Trump
@Luke Littler: The Palestinians have released some hostages already.
In exchange for hostages the Israelis have been holding for years.
Where is your concern for those Palestinians hostages?
Or your condemnation of Israel?
Oh, and many of the Palestinians held hostages are reported to have been killed.
By Israeli strikes.
@Luke Littler: There is such a thing as simple right and wrong.
Those that call themselves Israeli merely claim to be descendant from those who LEFT the region long ago.
The Palestinian is the descendant of those who REMAINED, those who have lived there since time immemorial, the true people of that land.
The Palestinian are Semite, and whose only crimes is that many converted to Christianity when it arose, and most to Islam when it arrived
The only reason for anyone to support the Israeli and not their Palestinian victim is simple racism.
(And, it transpires that the Israeli are primarily Europeans who converted to Judahism – yes, that first of the Abrahamic religions also escaped the region along with Christianity and Islam – and are not a Semite people at all.)
No one who claims to be descendant from those who left a land long ago has any right of return.
Any right to create terrorist groups, such as Haganah, The Stern Gang, or Irgun.
Any right to attack the people to drive them off their land, to steal their homeland homeland.
The Israeli has done all these things, and much worse.
Justice demands the restoration of Palestine – all of it – to the Palestinian.
Justice requires the Israeli, and all others complicit in their genocide and crimes against humanity, be held to account.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Most people on here and elsewhere and in particular the United States are totally ignorant of the history of that region and as you have mentioned blatant racism is at play by those that ignore the crimes that the Israeli state has inflicted on the Palestinian people going back as far as 1948. Israel couldn’t care less what the world thinks of their actions knowing full well that whatever lies and propaganda they spread America will believe it and that’s all that matters to them. What western democracy today would tolerate having the ultra far nut jobs that Isreal has in their government calling for the genocide of a race of people.
@Liam Money:
The ceasefire was brought about by President Biden.
The fella in waiting just loves to take credit for everyone else’s work.
No surprise there.
I assume the Guinness shortage in the UK is now over !
@Brendan Muldoon: media hype – not a single pub in London I’ve been in has run out and I’ve ‘researched’ quite a few!
Many will be looking forward to sitting in traffic surrounded by trucks!
Simon’s visit last week got it done! Well done Simon!
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