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There’s also a risk of more widespread sleet and snow to move in on Thursday.
An advisory from the forecaster of very cold conditions kicked in this morning and is set to last until Wednesday. No weather warnings have yet been issued.
Parts of Munster will wake up to frost this morning with cloudy conditions forecast around the country.
There’ll be outbreaks of rain and drizzle in parts of north Leinster and Ulster that will move southwards and then die out.
There’ll be some bright spells this afternoon with highest temperatures between 2 and 5 degrees.
Tonight will be cold and mainly dry, Met Éireann said. Sleet and snow is forecast for the northern half of Leinster and eastern half of Ulster.
Lowest temperatures will range between -2 and 2 degrees with a widespread sharp or severe frost and icy patches tonight.
Tomorrow will be “very cold”, Met Éireann said, with bright or sunny spells.
There’ll be scattered sleet and snow in the eastern half of the country, and in south Munster. Highest temperatures will be 1 to 4 degrees.
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Driving conditions
AA Ireland has urged motorists to use caution when driving in the coming days, due to the likelihood of snowy and icy conditions on roads across the country.
They are advising for all motorists to reduce their speeds when driving on icy or snowy roads, and to pay close attention to other road users like cyclists and pedestrians.
“While many of us are spending significantly less time in our car than we ordinarily would, for those who must travel in the days ahead it’s important that you remember to adapt your driving to the weather conditions that present,” said Conor Faughnan, AA Director of Consumer Affairs.
On icy roads it can take much longer to bring your car to a stop in an emergency, so it’s important that you reduce your speed and allow extra distance between yourself and other road users.
According to the AA, they are currently dealing with approximately 350 breakdowns per day, and they believe that the icy weather could lead to an increase in breakdowns.
“Right now many of us are using our cars less regularly than we ordinarily would, and when you mix cold temperatures with reduced usage – particularly over a weekend where the car may be completely idle – any battery issues the car may have been experiencing can be exacerbated resulting in the car failing to start,” said Faughnan.
Further outlook
Looking ahead, it’s going to remain very cold throughout the week with sharp ice and frost at nights.
On Monday night, temperatures could reach as low as -3 and then -4 on Tuesday night.
Met Éireann said there is “some uncertainty” on exact details for the weather on Thursday and Friday but that current indications say that snow will become more widespread.
It added that “significant accumulations” are possible before it turns to rain later on Thursday.
With reporting by Tadgh McNally
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No excise duty restoration on petrol and diesel but we’ll go ahead with the carbon tax increase which in effect will mean prices will not just go up by 2c a litre but will increase by another 4 or 5c….you just couldn’t make this stuff up… Easy to know these boys aren’t paying for petrol or diesel as they are being driven around in their big fancy Audis at taxpayers expense…..absolute cowboys, the lot of them
@: like TD Niall Collins you mean? He claimed 2,917 kilometres in ministerial mileage expenses for August 2021 when the Dáil was on its summer break. His diary suggests he covered just 170 kilometres that month for ministerial work. In 2021, Collins claimed tax-free ministerial mileage expenses of €17,740.98 for 52,764 kilometres of driving. Nice little earner.
@: Absolutely, I have long argued that it should either be completely removed. More realistically it should be completely adjusted, if you have a driver/car then you get no allowance. Then it should be based on price of fuel and tax payer only foots fuel price up to a cap of say 1.20€ LT anything above you pay. Then if you drive anything above 1.6LT engine or anything with a massive CO2 output the claim is only paid by 25%.
Either of them introduced and I bet you will see a change in tune on levies on it. It makes no sense that the people implementing the rules are completely and utterly bypassing the same.
@Tomasso San Roque: Niall Collins refused to appear before ethics Committee to explain this discrepancy. Like the NAMA scandal two weeks ago and the silence concerning the report of the missing millions in Templemore and the missing laptops and mobile phones of two ex garda commissioners…The brush and the carpet is alive and well.
So the usual government bolloxology, when it comes to increasing the price of anything which benefits the Exchequer, it can be done overnight with the stroke of a pen.
Yet when it comes to giving the scraps from the rich man’s to the less well off, it takes months, sounds about right.
@Andy Felthersnatch: It is like fuel prices, if an Arab farts at a crossroad the fuel goes up over night but if the price reduces it takes weeks to come back down.
@Squarepeg 01: It’s in the latest budget measures announced yesterday. Comment Allowances on Journal Topics are set to increase by Ten per cent per annum.
@Simon Sterne: clearly I’m using ‘overlord’ sarcastically. They think they’re morally superior and that they get to decide how we should think about the issues of the day. Any other opinion is to be silenced.
They simply haven’t a clue!!! This budget will change nothing for anyone.
The system is broken.
Billions in surpluses
Those that need help are still screwed
Those that work and pay taxes are still screwed.
What a joke. This budget was talked up so much.
They should have stayed at hoe
Wasting everyone’s time and energy
@Max Cooper: No,it’s actually people like you that simply don’t have a clue.It’s either just the usual ‘I hate this government’ or you don’t understand how budgets/inflation and trying to balance the books and keep everyone relatively happy.I’d say it’s a mixture of both to be honest.
@uUleRhCu: The problem with this budget is the timing of the crumbs we got. Cigs go up today petrol and diesel go up today and what ever knock on to that is. All happen now. The crumbs from the table only arrive in the new year. Child care not till Sept. Why is that. Sociel welfare not till Jan, why. Giving lump sums are great when u get them. But when there gone, your back to where you where. Surely these could have been teased out over longer. So really giving a little in one hand and taking back more in the other. That’s the budget. Not even mentioning child poverty. All all the hype on how it was going to be fixed.
@John Flanagan: ‘Giving with one hand and taking back with the other’……THATS HOW BUDGETS WORK!…..another guy who simply doesn’t understand how things work.
@uUleRhCu: explain it to everyone so because it does seem to me that whatever needs to go up does so overnight but whatever crumbs we may get are months away so there is actually more hardship for people before things may improve
@Sergej Simonov: No it shouldn’t be means tested…so what if a couple of billionaires get it,The cost alone of means testing is huge and would cost more than the ‘rich’ getting it……And it would mean that anyone on a half decent wage who pays for EVERYTHING and get no allowances wouldn’t get it…….and if you want to go down the means testing route,let’s means test people’s ability to work and send them out to work(companies are crying out for workers)
@uUleRhCu: of course John follow the usual pro.gov.line ,blame the unemployed ,underprivledged,homless.etc.And ignore the criminal disregard for the weaker and underpriveledge,whch is the hallmark of successive ff/fg.Governments
@Niall Murphy: this government is anti Irish. Fact is, the homeless figures were hovering around 10000 for years. They were left in emergency accommodation for years, in hotels at huge taxpayer expense. Suddenly the opportunity to import hundreds of thousands to prop up the pyramid arose, no stone was left unturned to find houses and voila, tens of thousands of people got homes including brand new modular homes. Four billion set aside in the budget to accommodate migrants dwarfs the pittance tenner a week being returned to Irish taxpayers who pay for it all. Lest not forget the €6500 pa pay rise the TDs gave themselves last August.
@Tomasso San Roque: are you going to enter politics and attempt to change the situation you’re unhappy about or just bitch and moan?
As the quote goes…”are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?”
@Simon Sterne: I’ll keep barking until it’s time to bite. My time to bite will be when the GE is called and gimps like yourself are sent out by your handlers door to door. I’ll be awaiting your knock.
I’m working, single, no kids. According to PWC calculator all I get is an extra €17 a week. Plus the energy credits. Very disappointing to say the least.
I’m noticing comments closed re non priority of health in the budget. How can health not take priority. It’s a shambles. Waiting lists, trolleys, children and adults years waiting for appointments. And more. It’s not a priority. I don’t believe any government source could say that. Shocking. No wonder comments closed.
Excise duty on vaping is very odd. Presume that this new excise duty will also be applied to other quit smoking nicotine replacement products such as patches and gums? Surely they should be reducing the VAT on vaping while increasing tax on cigarettes to encourage smokers to quit?
@Niall English: I dunno about that. To me, vaping is as bad as smoking. Remember, the original name for vapes was ” electronic cigarettes,” and they definitely can not be classed as an NRT product. How many people are now vaping that never actually touched a cigarette. Also, if you think that nice fruity taste that is used to cover the foul taste of nicotine is from natural origins, well, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
NRTs such as patches and gums are planned for short-term use only, and they help you wean yourself from the nicotine addiction, whereas vapes are not meant to be. They are meant as a direct replacement of cigarettes but never meant to be weaned from.
Not once did I hear the words old age pencioners mentioned yesterday, I’m a 67 yr old living alone, who has worked since I was 14 yrs old, yes we will get all of the grants announced yesterday, so will a youngster who is never worked a day in there life yet.
A 12e PW rise amounts to about 1.71 a day enough to buy me a loaf of bread,
There is no more I can say about this.
I quit smoking 11 years ago thanks to ecigs. Vaping has saved countless lives throughout the world. It’s safer than traditional smoking by orders of magnitude yet they intend to tax it for spurious & fallacious reasons namely to “protect children” & they are creating an “environmental issue”. The government are morally bankrupt imo
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