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BUS ÉIREANN SERVICES in four counties have been cancelled tomorrow due to Storm Eunice.
The public transport operator is having to curtail its bus service due to a Status Red wind warning coming into effect for Clare, Cork, Kerry and Waterford.
Storm Eunice, which is set to hit Ireland overnight, will cause blizzard-like conditions in some parts of the country, with dangerously high winds in other parts.
Status Red wind warnings will be in place for Kerry, Clare, Cork and Waterford while Status Orange wind warnings will be in place for Munster, Connacht and parts of Leinster.
Orange snow warnings will also come into effect in Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, while Yellow snow warnings will be in place across the country tomorrow.
Due to the storm, advice on travel has been issued by the Road Safety Authority and the Department of Transport today, with both urging people to use caution while travelling.
However, due to the Status Red wind warnings in four counties, people are being advised to remain indoors and to postpone any travel until after the storm has subsided.
The RSA has urged road users to be careful while travelling tomorrow and over the weekend.
With wind warnings to come into effect across the country, the RSA has said that people should consider postponing their journeys until after the storm has passed.
Road users are also being warned to be careful after the storm has passed and to be aware of possible debris on roads.
“When the extreme weather passes road users will still have to contend with potentially hazardous road conditions such as flooded roads and downed pylons, lines, trees, branches, and other debris which could block roads,” said the RSA.
“Obey any road closures or diversions put in place by Local Authorities and An Garda Síochána.”
Motorists are advised:
Public transport
At a briefing by the National Emergency Co-ordination Group this afternoon, the Department of Transport said that they are engaging with all public transport operators to ensure that they are ready for Storm Eunice.
In Clare, Cork, Kerry and Waterford, some public transport options will not be available during the storm, with all Bus Éireann services set to be cancelled between 1am and 10am tomorrow.
The Department confirmed that there would be no bus services for the two counties tomorrow, adding that this includes local link services.
A spokesperson for Bus Éireann also confirmed that this would apply to all routes entering into or out of the four counties under the Red warning.
School bus services in Cork, Clare, Waterford, Kerry, Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon will also not be operating tomorrow due to school closures which were recommended by the Department of Education.
The spokesperson said that other services would be assessed in line with weather conditions.
“In relation to all other weather conditions, services will be assessed in line with prevailing local weather conditions. Bus Éireann is closely monitoring the situation and our number one priority is the safety of our employees and pupils that use our services.”
The spokesperson urged people to check @buseireann on Twitter for local updates.
The Dept. of Education is advising that all schools in counties where status red and orange weather warnings are in place should not open tomorrow 18th Feb. School transport services in Cork, Kerry, Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon will be suspended tomorrow, 18th Feb.
— Bus Éireann (@Buseireann) February 17, 2022
However, Iarnród Éireann services will remain in operation throughout the country tomorrow, including in counties impacted by Status Red warnings.
In a statement this afternoon, the company said that while it will remain open, there may be some delays and that customers should check @IrishRail on Twitter for local updates.
“We will be monitoring lines, including early morning checks, especially on Red and Orange alert areas, and there may be delays arising from reduced speeds in Red areas,” said a spokesperson for Iarnród Éireann.
Elsewhere in Dublin, Dublin Bus has said that it expects all services to operate as normal tomorrow.
However, a spokesperson for Dublin Bus said that the situation would continue to be monitored and that advice would be provided to the company from the National Directorate Fire and Emergency Management (NDFEM).
Commercial bus operators will be able to make their own local decisions, according to the Department of Transport.
Aer Lingus have confirmed to The Journal that several flights are cancelled due to Storm Eunice.
“Due to the high winds expected by Storm Eunice, six return flights tomorrow Friday are cancelled. Some further disruption to the Aer Lingus flight schedule tomorrow Friday, 18 February is possible,” said a spokesperson for Aer Lingus.
Customers are advised to check the status of their flight before departing for the airport. Impacted customers will be accommodated on the next available flight, or can apply for a refund.
There has also been engagement with ferry companies in advance of Storm Eunice due to the high seas that Met Éireann has forecasted for tomorrow.
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If Tokyo shot down a drone, which is basically a peice of machinery, I cant see how it could be deemed an act of war, especially when no citizen of China was harmed in any way. Its like if I left my ride on lawn mower out side and my neighbour blew it up, I’d say ah Fred, for fu*ks sake, what are you like. But if Fred tried to blow up my mower while I was on it, then I’d jump fence armed with the rose pruner and turn baritone Fred into a soprano.
Think you need to move house mate, that Fred chap sounds a right bollix.
Ireland should start developing drones through our technology colleges. We’ve got great aeronautical and computer expertise. We could develop valuable intellectual property for export.
I’d rather we didn’t get involved in an industry that espouses extra-judicial killings.
It’s unlikely, in China’s case anyway, that their plan is to use these things for weather, mapping etc.
They are made to kill at a distance, asymmetrical warfare at its most obvious. We don’t need to get involved. It’s dirty. Just because we CAN do something, doesn’t mean we should.
We don’t need to use our colleges to develop drone technology. That’s what we have politics for. Strap wings on ‘em and point them straight up…
No wonder this country will never get anyplace with those sort of attitudes.
Drones are used in certain places to deliver goods to remote areas inaccessible by land. Others are used for research purposes or to aid in search and rescue operations. A drone is not exclusively a weapon of war.
By the start of 2014 ireland will have a debt of approximately 205billion. If you want a future for your kids, we should explore every possible avenue that will excell our growth. If our skill set is building drones, then lets builld them and create thousands of high paid jobs for graduates. With a 205billion debts, its very simple, beggers cant be choosers!
Drone, drone, drone, drone, it’s all so depressing.
On a brighter note it’s Friday and accoring to statistics lots of people are having sex right now.
I’m done!
Might do it again later.
Your hand doesn’t count Jim
I feel safer already.
Excellent drone work.
Like most chinese made things the batteries will wear out after a few hours and the thing will have fallen apart within a month.
God be with the days when all you had to do was call the A team….
Drone on truck in main picture is wrong one, wings are straight… not delta shaped as the article (or indeed the BBC article) points out
It’s 2013, the wings orientation shouldn’t an issue.
What’s even more amusing about the picture is the truck in camouflage green with the very discreet white-wall tyres. Sure, nobody would notice those out in the countryside…..
They are parade trucks,not actual combat vechicles.
The big question of course is where will this end ? . So soon we can see China taking out dissidents in London or New York ? Iran taking out dissidents in Istanbul ? Or for example in former times The British Government liquidating suspects in Dublin or Dundalk ? With the risk of (Some) collateral damage ? Under which international law will drone attacks operate ?
Padric. You might want to look closer to home. Tibetan dissidents in Napal.
I hardly think the Chinese will be sending columns of flying drones over the skies of London or New York to bomb dissidents especially when a poisoned umbrella or concrete shoes will do the trick just as easily. It’s worked quite well for the Russians
@ Mick : I exaggerate a little about London and New York of course, but there must be a provision for this “relatively new phenomenon” written into the Geneva Convention, or some such international law which forbids the use of drone strikes across national borders aimed at extra-judicial killings. Otherwise this will get completely out of hand.
In Cantonese it’s called Hu Flung Dung.
Does the drone pictured mounted on the truck seem a bit small?
Both the Predator & Reaper drones seem much larger.
I wonder what ordnance it could carry & its range doing so?
I doubt it could reach Japan…… probably scares the sh*t out of Taiwan though.
Drones wouldn’t scare any modern force really. They’re big, slow targets with practically no ability for evasive manoeuvres past a few basic programmed moves and very little in the way of countermeasures. Iran also showed that anyone with even a basic understanding of the technology can essentially shut down a drone.
They’re useful for observing an area with absolutely no air defences and can be of limited combat value. Anything more and you really need to call in a manned, supersonic jet with much more ordnance and countermeasures. Something which almost everyone has at this stage.
I’m a bit skeptical about Iran’s ability to bring down that drone. It’s speculated that it could have been a modern Trojan horse, used to deliver targeted malware. We know the US have targeted Iran with malware before; Stuxnet.
Jason is right Barry.
Predators for example are propellor driven, and travel around 400mph at best.
A 1970s jet or any half decent SAM site can pick them off easily enough.
The MiG fighters employed by Iran are more than a match for any drone currently in service.
You must not know of the incident in question, Ricky. Iran claimed they hacked the drone while in flight and commanded it to land. It was undamaged and they said they plan to reverse engineer it. They did not shoot it down.
I heard of the incident,….. i assumed it was just downed by an iranian missile.
China is a bit behind these other boys “Senior analyst Gen. McInerney warns that US is in comparable danger to pre-WWII period, specifically from Russian and Iranian hegemonies.”
Next they be thinking for themselves
Our experts busies in inventing drones an other war high tech technology but how about this Doomsday Debate: Asteroid Threat Could Divide Society. If our God permit this such as the 1979 vn that have an absolute magnitude of 13.2 and the rolling of the moon will come up all the things that we have in this planet will erases that we may pull back in the old days that uses horse and sword that only only came face to face during war. And no civilian casualties.
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