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LAST UPDATE | 24 hrs ago
IRELAND IS SET to experience bitterly cold winter nights with Met Éireann warning of “very disruptive weather”, including heavy snow, in the days ahead.
Hazardous travelling conditions are forecast for the weekend, with a weather advisory warning of “significant accumulations” of snow in some counties.
The forecaster says very cold and impactful weather is expected this weekend, with an area of low pressure bringing rain, sleet and disruptive amounts of snow.
It will be drier in the early days of next week but the bitterly cold conditions will remain, amid lying snow, widespread severe frost and scattered wintry showers.
Low temperatures of -7 degrees are expected on Monday night while Tuesday and Wednesday are also set to be cold days, with temperatures ranging from -10 at night in some areas to 4 degrees during the day.
Met Éireann said a low temperature and ice warning will take effect for the country from 6pm this evening and it is expected to lift at 11am tomorrow.
In the North, a yellow ice warning has been in place since yesterday. The UK Met Office said this will lift later this morning.
In its advisory published for Saturday and Sunday, Met Éireann said rain, sleet and snow will continue throughout the weekend before clearing on Sunday eastwards into the Irish Sea.
The Road Safety Authority has urged people travelling to exercise caution, warning of hazards such as black ice on the country’s roads.
⚠️Yellow Warning – Low Temperature/Ice ⚠️
— RSA Ireland (@RSAIreland) January 2, 2025
📍 Ireland
📅 Thur 2, 6pm – Fri 3, 11am
Very cold with widespread frost and ice as temperatures fall to -3 degrees or below in many areas. Potential Impacts:
• Hazardous travelling conditions
• Animal welfare issues pic.twitter.com/GzXJFVk9ex
Saturday night will see widespread heavy falls of rain, sleet and snow with lowest temperatures of -2 to +1 degrees according to Met Éireann.
Sunday will bring further falls of rain, sleet and some further significant snowfall accumulations for a time.
Met Éireann warns it will be “feeling very cold” with highest temperatures of 2 to 7 degrees, with the added wind chill from fresh and gusty northerly winds. This is expected to be stronger on the coast.
Temperatures are set to plummet again on Sunday night – it will range between -5 to 0 degrees.
Next week, an Arctic airmass will mean “treacherous conditions with some significant accumulations of lying snow”, along with widespread severe frost and ice.
It’s expected further weather warnings will be issued heading into the weekend.
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20 jobs that’s it folks recession is over
5 point plan is still on track
#sarcasm
I have to admit I was extremely impressed when Enda Kenny unveiled the 5 point plan back in 2011. I never knew he could count to 5.
” Recent research into the efficacy of ‘trade missions’ shows mixed results. A Canadian study into the visits of Stephen Harper’s government ( pdf) showed that – for all the hubris and politicians’ vanity – they did squat for trade. They just took businessmen to sign deals that had been agreed already. They are great lobbying opportunities for the businessmen, and they help the politician pose as the friend of business. But evidence of them helping exports? ‘Small, negative and mainly insignificant effects’.”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/04/the-trade-mission-delusion/
We all know his advisors counted to 5 for him
#generalknowledge
20 jobs!? Is that a typo?
Couldn’t give a shite about €40m belonging to private companies… We’ll not see a penny of it anyway…but are they seriously bragging about 20 jobs?
Brain it looks that way they should had made it 26 jobs one for every county
20 jobs makes up for the amount of jobs lost since I started typing this comment. We need Bono to raise this plight at his next big gig: “Every time I clap my hands someone in Ireland has lost a job”
So stop clapping your hands!
In other news the government has sold €5.00 in 10 year bonds on the stock market today.
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And I wonder which politicians are listed as directors for those companies.
Its not like the people will be benefitting from a private company getting rich….
I’m speechless, where can I apply for all these jobs ?
I’d be ashamed to come back from a country with such a huge population and make that announcement. Sounds like a total failure for the mission. Kenny would want to shuffle him out some quiet door and send someone capable of promoting this country and people. Sack him!
Compared to recent deals with China by other countries, this is charity!
Folks I am not the Goverments biggest fan but 20 jobs is still better than none. €40 million of which some Irish Compaines could receive by supplying services and goods.
How many people are going come into the work force after finishing college 20 jobs is nt going be much help
Michael €36 million of the €40 million are funds being invested by Irish companies in Asia. The remainder accounts for deals done between Asian and Irish companies. According to the article.
Only 20 jobs? Ah cmon now
Might not even be that. The beauty of trade missions is that no one will check in 12 months to see if they actually delivered.
Has to be a typo.
So…5 million in
36 million out.
Are we…do we clap to this? I..just don’t know anymore
Typical Dickee Bruton stuff. It will probably cost more to send that rich littleBruton sleeveen to Asia than the country will ever realise in employment.
But as usual when useless rich mans friend Bruton is involved …… it’s hard to measure.
God help us to rid ourselves of these useless greedy pigs like Bruton !
Ah the redthumbs are out supportin they guvmints…but strangely… Have feck all to say
Wait….36 million in investments…In Asia.
Twenty jobs for only forty million? Dat’s fab!!
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OK. TIme’s up.
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