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SCHOOLS IN 26 counties are set to close this Friday following the announcement of status Red weather warnings as Storm Éowyn is forecast to sweep across the country.
Met Éireann has issued Status Red wind warnings for every county from the early hours on Friday.
The National Emergency Coordination Group (NEMG) met this morning and decided that every school, creche and higher education institution in counties under status Red warnings will close on Friday.
The head of the NECG has warned that the storm could be among the most severe the country has ever seen.
A ‘shelter in place’ warning has also be issued by the group of emergency experts, warning the public to avoid taking unnecessary journeys and asking employers to allow people to work from home.
The group has directed schools to close for the duration of the status Red warnings.
A Status Red wind warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Waterford will be in effect from 2am until 10am on Friday.
A Status Red wind warning will come into effect for Clare and Galway from 3am and remain in place until midday.
The Status Red wind warning for Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo will be in place from 4am until midday.
Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Roscommon, Tipperary will all be under a Status red wind warning from 6am until midday.
Donegal will be under a Status Red wind warning from 6am to 3pm.
A Status Orange wind warning will be in place across the whole country from 2am until 5pm on Friday.
Met Éireann has also issued a Status Yellow rain warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford that will be in place from 9pm on Thursday until 3am on Friday.
The Met Office has issued an Amber warning on counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry from 6am on Friday until 9pm.
Met Éireann meteorologist Gerry Murphy has said that the public should expect public buildings and businesses in counties where Red warnings will be in place to close early on Thursday evening.
As is the norm, public transport services will not be operating in counties during the Red warning. Service providers will decide independently whether to continue operations later in the evening.
Significant and widespread power outages could be ahead – as 50,000 people were without power during Storm Darragh last month – which could have further impacts on communication networks.
The cancellations of events, structural damage to buildings and homes, wave overtopping and coastal flooding should also be expected.
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R.I.P. to the 2yrs old child & man killed today in Bavaria by the ” unsuccessful asylum applicant”
@Mary Linton: those whom allow should be charged with man slaughter.
@Mary Linton: Sadly, there is a knife attack tracking website. I would never have believed such a thing necessary in that country, where we lived near 30 years.
@Mary Linton: don’t pretend that you care about the victims now.
Good thing the dail is taking 2 weeks off. Just in case
@David Cotter: They’re back tomorrow.
@David Cotter: good hope day don’t come back afterwards right shower
Some absolute fools will go surfing or climb a mountain, and put other people in danger
@Dan Murphy: well if you have bills to pay, one must work in it. If no one gives 2 figs about ye in general, no danger they come looking until storm dies down.
Gone soft we use to go no matter what the weather
@Jennifer Kelly: u want parents and children to possibly risk their lives for a day in school?
@Jennifer Kelly: storm Debbie 1961 we stayed home as buses off and we climbed and played on the fallen trees til every last branch was cut up and taken away for burning in the stoves at a later date.
@Luke Littler: are you referring to storm ophelia where unfortunately 3 people were killed?
@Luke Littler: if you mean ophelia.. I watched it pick of a wheelie bin and throw it from one side of a road to the other.. there absolutely WAS wind during that.
And if met eireann didn’t declare a red and anyone got even the slightest bit hurt, YOU are the sort of person that would be moaning that they should have declared red.
@Jennifer Kelly: stain of a comment
Bizarre line in the story on the sex workers assaulted in Limerick, which includes the very unusual ‘and from Ireland’ despite the accused not being named. Imagine if it stated, he was ‘not from Ireland’! I could give two damns where this yoke is from but this is just strange to go out of the way to include this. Either way I hope he gets what he deserves.
@Brian M:
He was actually found dead, a suicide I believe
@Costigan Family: Yeah, he was found dead and story updated.
Do authors not proof read their articles before they publish them? There are multiple errors in the article.
There won’t be a loaf of bread to be got.
What about the worker’s
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