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THERE IS A RISK of coastal flooding over the next few days due to “unusually” high tides, Met Éireann has said.
The forecaster said there will be some bright spells in the northwest at first today, but it will be another mostly cloudy day overall with outbreaks of rain and drizzle.
Coastal flooding is possible today and tonight due to unusually high tides.
Yesterday, Dart services experienced significant delays for a number of hours after waves overtopped onto some platforms.
Tonight is also due to be mostly cloudy with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle. There will be patches of mist and hill fog, too.
Tomorrow morning will be mostly cloudy to begin, with patchy mist and further outbreaks of rain and drizzle. This will clear eastwards through the afternoon and evening with bright spells and showers to follow.
Met Éireann has said coastal flooding is, again, likely tomorrow due to the unusually high tides.
Looking ahead, the forecaster said it will be “generally unsettled” through the coming week with rain at times, but it’s expected to become milder around midweek.
The unusually high tides will continue out through Tuesday with the possibility of coastal flooding for all coasts.
Tuesday will begin dry in most areas, but cloud is due to thicken with outbreaks and rain, drizzle and patchy mist spreading from the southwest through the morning and afternoon.
Outbreaks of rain and drizzle will become confined to the west and north on Tuesday night.
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Glad to see staff standing up for themselves. How many stories have been on here recently about staff getting attacked?
It’s a tough job that I wouldn’t like to do , especially when you don’t have ‘back up’ available and an employer who would rather pay injured staff rather than hire more!
Some areas need more staff in the public sector and this is one.
Well done the warders.There is no point in keeping the powder dry all the time and you need to come off the high moral ground every once in a while.
As for those who are upset for the poor prisoners,they have the TV
If I wasn’t happy in my job I’d find a new one.
Staff shortages because of a moratorium on new recruits. Over 100 lads were waiting to start the job after passing medicals and 2 years of apptitude tests and exams..and nothing came of it. Time ran out for those applicants and they must start from scratch again. Joke of a system.
Maybe they should advertise the positions on Jobsbridge
Sack ‘em all
And who would it then Steve? You?
There is a reason the World Health Organisation has classed the Job of Prison Officer as the second most stressfull job after Aircraft Controller.
What most people don’t realise is that of those that initially join the Job over half will leave within the first year when they realise it is not the easy job they thought it was going to be.
The vast majority of the publics knowledge of what is involved in working in a prison comes from heavily edited documentaries and fictional films or drama series.
How many of you go to work knowing that there is a high chance of you not going home at the end of your working day because you are in A&E after being assaulted. How many of you have to be constantly aware of your surroundings and who is around you even when you are off duty and out with your family.
An Officer only recently had his car burnt out outside his home. How many of you have to worry that maybe next time it could be petrol through your letter box.
So if you think that its an easy job and that anyone could do then apply the next time they are taking on Officers and walk the walk then and only then you can talk the talk.
Forbes has a different list, they say taxi driving is more stressful, but whatever floats that chip on your shoulder. Farming is more dangerous than being a PO, chill.
Steve I will take the word of the World Health Organisation. And as for a chip I am not the one that said ” Sack them all” you were.
Muppet
That wall is very high, there’s just no escaping that.
I’d say the staff shortages were a lot worse while they were picketing…
Wouldn’t have happened in Gypsy Joes day
Tonight there’s gona be jailbreak is being sung all over the prison
Tonight there’s gonna be jailbreak, somewhere in this town, but most likely at one of the jails
@ Jack and Mick
Mick I’ve read your comments on here before always to the point with no gloss.
Don’t let the likes of this jack let you lose sight of the work you and your colleagues do.
IPS don’t care if you dont go home to your family after going through that door.
It’s cheaper to pay the claims, as an official from state claims once told me when I asked him about banning smoking in the prison’s, and that was in the presence of our general secretary.
Stay strong and focussed with all groups within , psec, osg, paso grades fight together
Rather misleading headline: Both sides ‘disappointed’ as officers picket outside Cloverhill prison
Pretty sure the lads inside dont give a damn
So, it looks like the gaffer at Cloverhill has a few screws loose……
(putting me coat on ;-) )
Press a button and turn a key – not that hard a job
You should try it sometime. Then see if you make stupid uninformed comments.
Probably shit yourself if you seen the inside of a prison Jack, and yer smart arse would belong to someone.
Please tell me what skill/training is involved? I know a lot of them and they admit they only went in because there were no other secure public service jobs left
Skills/Training. Firstly you have to know the law in relation to prisons, prisoners and anyone entering the prison. You have to know how to deal with the mentally ill, angry violent people and those that are weak afraid and vulnerable. You have to know how to defend yourself and how to deal with a riot situation. You have to know First Aid and fire Fighting. You have to know how the court system works and the different legal documents that go with it. You have to know how to negotiate in a hostage situation. You have to learn situational security awareness, how to read people by their postures and facial expressions. You have to learn to be both an authoritarian figure and social worker combined.
So Jack if you think the Job is so easy why don’t you apply. See if you have the balls to face down an inmate armed with a shiv while you are armed only with your voice and the presence you portray.
All very poetic but you do 99% of this from the other side of a celldoor – Nurses, Guards, Firefighters do this out in the real world.
And you know this how?
Kill them with shop orders & love !!
99%, wow that’s an awful big figure! How did you come up with that? Did you pull it from a dangleberry Bush? There’s no one knocking the excellent work that the Guards, Nurses and Fire Brigade do, don’t knock the unseen thankless work that is done by Prison Staff.
JackMc you asked the Question “Please tell me what skill/training is involved?”
I gave you the answer. Just because it wasn’t the answer you thought you would get because it didn’t fit
into your preconceived ideas.
No Mick, I was just ignoring your pontification. But in response if they built proper prisons we could avoid scenarios like you described, robots could do the same job. Nurses Guards and Firefighters do a job that they joined because they wanted to help people. Can you honestly say POs joined to do that? I don’t think so – it was for the money and the job security.
JackMc nobody but you has mentioned Gardai, Fire Fighters or Nurses all of which do fantastic work. And what in your opinion is a ” proper prison”?
And as for robots. How would a robot deal with an inmate with mental health issues? How would a robot stop one inmate from stabbing/slashing/beating another inmate? How would a robot deal with an attempted suicide? How would a robot man our criminal courts? How would a Robot stop a group of prisoners smashing up and or burning the prison to the ground? How would a Robot deal with the simple day to day issues that entails running a landing? How would a robot feed the inmates?
Be so good to share your knowledge of all things prison related to the rest of us mere mortals.
Ya should of never broke away from 24/7 alliance. Sound
Why?
Why?
A nd 24/7 have done what exactly for the nurses in galway yesterday?
Were the prisoners consulted?
You wouldnt believe how close to the truth you are!
Whingers
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