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WHAT IF WE were guaranteed to have a long weekend when the weather is good? Well one town council is asking the government if it could make it so.
Ennis Town Council has voted unanimously to write to the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to ask if it will allow Ireland’s meteorological service, Met Éireann, to determine the date of one public holiday a year based on the likelihood of good weather.
The idea – first reported by the The Meteo Times – is that of Green Party Councillor Brian Meaney who says that “endless weeks of wet weather” have led him to believe that the idea of fixed holiday days is a “nonsensical notion”.
“The idea is simple,” he told TheJournal.ie this week, “You will have Met Éireann – who have a very good track record – they would say that on a certain Monday we are going to have a fine weekend, we’re going to have a Bank Holiday.”
“The reality is that we have a system of bank holidays, the dates of which were dictated by the banks… holidays that suit themselves and I don’t think we want anything associated with the banks.”
He suggested the Met Éireann determined holiday could be called ‘Jean Byrne Day’ after the famous TV weather forecaster and said that the idea was part of a broader conversation about climate change which he wanted to raise.
Meaney continued: “We have to begin to start thinking differently, we have to think outside the box about the way we live, to adapt to climate change because our climate is changing.
“Businesses close down during very cold weather, it’s not something that is unheard of, businesses declare holidays for bad weather. Well let’s have one holiday for good weather.”
Met Éireann, which often takes calls from members of the public in October who want to know what the weather will be like for their wedding in the New Year, said that it would be almost impossible to forecast any weather beyond a week.
“Any forecast beyond a week would be inaccurate or unreliable,” a spokesperson said.
The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation said that it would “not seem appropriate to comment publicly on this issue in advance of replying to any correspondence from the Council”.
“The Department has not received the correspondence mentioned from Ennis Town Council so we would not have had an opportunity to consider the proposals being made,” a statement said.
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See, this is what happens when you slag off the red line.
Ha exactly.
Yup… those red liners will be laughing all the way to the post office or the methadone clinic this Wednesday morning wondering just what exactly is this ‘work’ thing that their South Dublin counterparts are so concerned to be missing.
Red Line is South Dublin from Saggart to Houston Station. At least consult a compass when composing your slurs!
Autocorrect thinks it’s in Texas.
Very funny Drew … not.
Drew the south Dubliners have to “work” as you put it to afford the shed loads of cocaine every weekend!
Aye we do…. For taxes purposes though we’re working to afford our ‘columbian overseas foreign aid’ donation.
Running the red line through gang territory has now paid off. Its so used to gun shots puny lightening doesn’t frighten it
Was there not a stabbing on the green line recently????
Another blow in who probably doesn’t have a clue..
There was, my comment was tongue in cheek (written onboard a red line tram)
The new machine gun turret on top will have that sorted .
Funny too, Felix. We might be posting from the same train.
**looks around nervously**
@ Shane Walsh only spotting your comment now:
If using the red line since its inception in 2004 first for school & college, and now to go to work making in excess of 460 trips per year (allowing for annual leave/bank holidays) for the last 6/7yrs qualifies me as a blow in so be it
Good response to my early morning moany reply. Remind me to shake your hand at the Kingswood Stop in the morning ;) ;)
^^^now thats freaky!! :-)
hahahaha :) :) :) Happy Wednesday.
Shussss don’t tell anyone
Threw a fuse in her. Be grand. If she keeps blowing throw a bit of fag paper or a 10 mil bolt in her. Also be grand. Ish.
Its same problem as yesterday. They dont have the skills to repair. Any technical fault and they have to go to the foreign companies that built it. Makes you wonder why they pay local engineers? After last nights investigations they have just madw the problem worse by disabling the whole line.
Fragile wee thing that Luas….
This is obviously God’s way of telling liberal South Dublin to vote No! Subtle, but I get the message.
Not a bad thing, considering that Enda’s gang were lying in wait to ambush the electorate for a vote on something that they dont really give a s**t about.
It’s that Breda O’brien playing with the new testiment weather kit …
It’s running again now
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