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SEVERAL ROAD INCIDENTS have taken place across motorways in Tipperary over the last 24 hours, as the county faces the worst levels of recorded snowfall since 2018.
Incidents were reported on the M7 and M8 motorways yesterday, with major tailbacks bring traffic to hour-long standstills on the busy roads.
Significant snowfall across the country has led to treacherous driving conditions across Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Kilkenny, Carlow, Laois and Wicklow, with widespread icy conditions throughout the country.
41,000 customers remain without power nationwide as Met Éireann issued a fresh Status Yellow snow-ice warning for the entire country today, which will stay in place until midday tomorrow.
Tipperary County Council has advised the public not to travel unless it is absolutely necessary, as the county’s Fire Service said earlier today that they had responded to 24 calls since 9am on Sunday, most of which were weather-related incidents.
The absolute state of the M7 through Tipp 😵💫 pic.twitter.com/pvlXQza1yh
— Sarah Holland (@SJTHolland) January 5, 2025
In the wake of this, Tipperary County Council said its Crisis Management Team met this morning to discuss impacts and road conditions in Tipperary.
“The Winter Service routes were treated yesterday, overnight and again early this morning,” a Council spokesperson said in a statement.
Snowy roadcams in the mid-west, Kerry.
— Bad Weather Stations (@BadWxStations) January 5, 2025
M7 Rathnavogue, N21 Feales Bridge, Rathkeale.https://t.co/fCc8BiD6rj#sneachta #snow pic.twitter.com/rLfKqPW84x
“Conditions remain dangerous due to snow and ice including on routes where road surfaces have been treated. Further forecasted rainfall and freezing conditions may limit the effectiveness of road salting as rainfall can wash salt off the road and, combined with low road surface temperatures, allow ice to form”.
Tipperary County Council is responsible for 99km of motorway across the M7 and M8, which were cleared of snow this morning using salt spreading and snow ploughs fitted to Council trucks.
Took 9.5 hours from Newmarket-on-Fergus Co Clare, to Cork city! Stranded on the #M8 for almost 3 hours. THANK YOU so much to @GardaTraffic & the other drivers who helped move my car to allow access for the snow ploughs Tipp CoCo. Heroes one & all. #sneachta @CorkSafetyAlert pic.twitter.com/qU49jSq6xE
— Niamh O'Connor RD (@CorkNutrition) January 5, 2025
The Council’s Winter Service crews have said they are prioritising the clearing and treatment of the planned winter maintenance salting routes.
With further snow and very low temperatures forecast into the rest of the week, the Council added that this programme “will continue to be prioritised”.
In Cork, a truck jack-knifed on the N20 just before midday today between Charleville and O’Rourke’s Cross, entirely blocking the main route between Cork and Limerick.
Cork County Council has said that the truck was removed. The N20 from Mallow to Charleville is treated and traffic is moving, but warned that there is a lot of snow on the sides and middle of the N20 road between Buttevant and Charleville.
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Enoch Burke had no trouble getting to work. Not a day for standing around at the gates
@P. V. Aglue: burk is playing the irish state like a cheap fiddle I know for a fact iff he was a kid from the hood he would have been banged up years ago
7 years isn’t almost a decade, 9 years is almost a decade
@P. V. Aglue: I think it was in late 2018 so really only 6 years ago
@P. V. Aglue: 2009 is a decade, 2014 is another decade.. & 2021 is a third decade…
Yet just 12 years have passed.. o¿0
2024 one of the hottest on record… I guess comments are closed on that article in fear anyone with half a brain would call out this as utter tripe! With the exception of a week in May and a mild December, most of the year was wet and cold. It wouldn’t make the top 4 of the last 10 years never mind since records began. Comedy gold!
@Jack: Thank goodness you found something online that turned you into an expert overnight, unlike the authors of that report who spent years in college studying what you call it. Oh yeh science. The report is based on overall temperatures across the entire year and the whole country. Just because you personally didn’t experience a warm summer in your garden doesn’t mean that wasn’t the case elsewhere on the island.
@Jack: I don’t think you understand climate and statistics. Best to just go with your gut feel
@Peter Finnigan: you should learn the difference between journalism and science. Btw I have degrees in environmental science, bio chem and a b eng. oh and a brain to think for myself and not be so gullible taking everything one reads as fact. There’s a science to that also but perhaps that may be too much for your narrow minded little brain to compute ;)
@Jack: You do in your b******* have those qualifications, I doubt you have an IQ above 90 , it’s simply to spot , you’re articulation is child like, you’re posting the same drivel on every thread with all the same mistakes looking for an audience. Do yourself a favour and get help , therapy isn’t that expensive at €100 a session and it’s tax deductible and with you’re qualifications, you’re surely earning.
@Paul O’Mahoney: “it’s simply to spot” People ALWAYS mess up when calling others stupid. At least proof read. Come on man.
@Paul O’Mahoney: I’d recommend proof reading your own illiterate waffle before attempting to critique others. Get back to the circus you escaped from.
@FlipBip: autocorrect, Mr anal
@Paul O’Mahoney: Here’s a simply tip to raise your IQ points, Read what you have typed before hitting the enter key.
@Pork Hunt: and remember which account you made your original with.
I drove from Cork to Dublin this morning and the M7 is grand. Snow in a teacup
@DJ Points: Take a guess why?!?! You used a motorway which has had regular use and was gritted…… Different story off the motorways….. The mind boggles at how some people can’t understand that their experience might not be what others are experiencing!!! Maybe read the article, do a search on X or Instagram!!
@DJ Points: well in case you’re interested in that tiny universe you inhabit..we in the south of the country have ground to a halt…its snowing again, businesses and schools closed, power and water outages and not a sliced loaf or carton of milk to be got…but as long as your OK…
@Clare Power: surely you have the skills to make bread
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: excuses
@Argus Romsworth: I can knock up a loaf when needs must but you need milk or buttermilk pet…and it’s very hard to bake a loaf without the electricity..
@Clare Power: sure you have electricity. You’re online commenting all day. Flour, yeast and water is all you need for a loaf by the way. Call yourself a woman, lol
@Argus Romsworth: troll account?!?!
@Argus Romsworth: do u need electricity to use your phone??..I posted 3 other comments, hardly constitutes all day…..just coz u got burned don’t take your ire out on me…
@Clare Power: you’ve been caught out consuming electricity all day clare
@Argus Romsworth: And you’re here all day trying to p*** off other commentators. It’s time to seek mental health support instead of seeking attention?
@Argus Romsworth: may I suggest you upgrade your phone to a smart phone, they’re a marvel….
@Clare Power: no snow in cork!
What “south of the country” are you referring to??
@DJ Points: but try the M8 from Cork to Dublin yesterday ( Sunday)? A whiteout, but the M8 in and around Tipperary hadn’t been gritted – it was fine at the Cork side. It was so dangerous. We drove in the tracks of cars ahead as the road couldn’t be seen. Nearer the M7 it got clearer and was just raining from Kildare up.
@sean weir: I don’t live in Cork,…
@sean weir: and what part of Cork are u in…other commentators seem to be disagreeing with u….
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: ehhh maybe you should read the article. It talks about the M7 you gombeen
Genuine question, what do people do to heat their house if they only have a heat pump and no fireplace (like the new builds)? Power hasn’t gone here on the east coast but would like to hear suggestions, clean preferably, it’s still before the watershed :-)
@The next small thing: nothing, backup generator and even at that it’d want to be a powerful one to drive the demand required. Anyone with no fireplace and heatpumps in these modern houses are feck3d in a power outage
An even longer way now……..
Considering snow plows are made by a company in Birr, not sure why they weren’t any to sort the Motorways yesterday and today. It’s not hars to send one up and down it when the snow is falling hard so it’s kept clear. We are snowed in and will be tomorrow too but no excuse for motorways
@Dawn Harvey Artist: …Ice cream vans are made by a company from Mulligar, yet we never see one at the beaches of Westmeath …
Go figure ○¿0
Not a drop of snow where I am, don’t know what all the fuss is about
@Joe Beirne: Oh Shut up
@Joe Beirne: Drop? Flake, you mean flake.. now that’s all the attention you’re getting, let yourself & DJ wear the losers hats for the day.. you both have failed triumphantly. Have a cookie.
@Julio’s Evil Twin: flute
@Joe Beirne: Another gombeen
Drove from North Kerry to Cork city this morning over the Cork/Kerry mountains took 30 mins longer than usual only. Didn’t freeze last night down here so once you avoided the snow on the side of the road it was grand.
9.5 hours. Sweet Jesus id go off my rocker
Of all the things on my bucket list there snow way that travelling in Tipperary was on the cards anyway…
Still waiting for the snow here I roscommon !
@Ivan Dickson: Where?
@James Leahy: I Roscommon, it’s the new county that apple launched. It holds everything every other county has in one handy location but if you move there they’ll own you forever
Global warming…
Never noticed.
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