University complete closed until Monday (December 6th)

funky penguin

The Matthews aren't running?!?! :eek:

Turtyturd

Anyone got any idea if things are back to normal from tomorrow?

Dunno what Maynooth is like but in Dublin it's stopped snowing but the ground is still leathal.

Alt_Grrr

Turtyturd wrote: »

Anyone got any idea if things are back to normal from tomorrow?

Dunno what Maynooth is like but in Dublin it's stopped snowing but the ground is still leathal.

http://www.nuim.ie/weather-alert.shtml

No changes since Thursday.
I'd say that Monday will go ahead.
The Campus isn't great, but the roads to Maynooth have improved a little bit.
Public Transport is still an unknown at the moment, but I'd say that this evening they will have a better idea of what the state of play is.

A Changer

All classes to resume tomorrow (Monday 6th)

http://www.nuim.ie/weather-alert.shtml

NUI Maynooth to re-open on Monday December 6th

Due to the ongoing weather conditions, NUI Maynooth will remain closed on Sunday, 5th December 2010.

The University will re-open on Monday Dec 6th and all classes, practicals and tutorials will run as scheduled.

djhaxman

I just hope they have the place gritted.

cian1500ww

djhaxman wrote: »

I just hope they have the place gritted.

Me too, might as well have been called "NUIM on ice" last week...

Alt_Grrr

djhaxman wrote: »

I just hope they have the place gritted.

cian1500ww wrote: »

Me too, might as well have been called "NUIM on ice" last week...

You'll both be glad to know that,
no,
they have not gritted the place.

cian1500ww

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

You'll both be glad to know that,
no,
they have not gritted the place.

Is there anywhere selling ice skates in Maynooth?? :rolleyes:

Jimmy Iovine

Ah here come on it wasn't that bad last week. Unless you had no sense of balance or were running along like a goon then there's no real need to be complaining. The only place to be avoided in the whole of Maynooth is along by the leaking drain pipes beside The Orient, AIB and O'Neills.

Ireland in general really needs to man up and stop complaining about this snow. It's only a couple of inches not a few feet

Alt_Grrr

cian1500ww wrote: »

Is there anywhere selling ice skates in Maynooth?? :rolleyes:

Scratch that. The Magic JCB is out, plowing the snow out of the way. Big improvement. Hope it stays that way....

hypersquirrel

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Ah here come on it wasn't that bad last week. Unless you had no sense of balance or were running along like a goon then there's no real need to be complaining. The only place to be avoided in the whole of Maynooth is along by the leaking drain pipes beside The Orient, AIB and O'Neills.

Ireland in general really needs to man up and stop complaining about this snow. It's only a couple of inches not a few feet

I've got a foot of snow and I only live 30 minutes from Maynooth

ontour

Does anyone know what the roads are like from trim to summerhill kilcock and then maynooth:( Have to drive in the morning

squishykins

funky penguin wrote: »

The Matthews aren't running?!?! :eek:

They weren't for a day or two (more because of the explosion on O' Connell than anything), and I'm lazy ^^', I begged my bf's dad to give me a lift, and he kindly obliged, so I'm here now :P

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

http://www.nuim.ie/weather-alert.shtml

No changes since Thursday.
I'd say that Monday will go ahead.

I was so hoping for a lie in!! Yeh roads on campus are grand now, all dug and gritted.

djhaxman

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Ireland in general really needs to man up and stop complaining about this snow. It's only a couple of inches not a few feet

We're Irish, it's what we do best.

cython

amyputz wrote: »

They weren't for a day or two (more because of the explosion on O' Connell than anything), and I'm lazy ^^', I begged my bf's dad to give me a lift, and he kindly obliged, so I'm here now :P



I was so hoping for a lie in!! Yeh roads on campus are grand now, all dug and gritted.

Except in typical Maynooth fashion, when they went over the roads, they didn't really consider the car parks, despite that being where most of the road users would eventually end up! Had to help a woman who got her car stuck this morning get out, which wasn't helped by the fact that she didn't really get how to drive in slippery conditions.

squishykins

cython wrote: »

Except in typical Maynooth fashion, when they went over the roads, they didn't really consider the car parks, despite that being where most of the road users would eventually end up! Had to help a woman who got her car stuck this morning get out, which wasn't helped by the fact that she didn't really get how to drive in slippery conditions.

It's still better than nothing though! I was in a car accident last Fri (wasn't driving ), so any sort of stability is fine by me!

LeixlipRed

Roads on this side of campus are neither gritted nor cleared.

maroon

Absolutely outraged this morning for the state of the car parks, only front one beside the bridge being some how usable. Felt pretty stupid getting stuck in ice and snow being fairly inexperienced with snowy weather, but reopening of the college despite parking covered in thick ice and snow is not the smartest move either.what if someone broke a leg or worse?

P.S. And I would like to express my gratuity to two patient students for helping me to get out of this mess. If it wasn't for them, i'd still be there, so thank you.

cython

all-students@list.nuim.ie wrote:

Dear Students,

Because of weather conditions affecting Maynooth and the prospects of further snow tomorrow, the University will close from this
afternoon, December 21st and will remain closed until Tuesday 4th January 2011.

We have taken this decision in the interests of the safety of students and staff, and apologise for any inconvenience caused by this decision.

With best wishes for the Christmas season.



Yours sincerely,




Professor Tom Collins

President

Rather than posting a new thread, just resurrecting this for anyone that it may affect (less than normal, I know, given that there are no lectures, etc.)

Daemos

"Because of weather conditions"

Yeah right

PrivateEye

Hmmm, national library it is for me so.

Jimmy Iovine

PrivateEye wrote: »

Hmmm, national library it is for me so.

Reading Rooms

The reading rooms in the National Library of Ireland will close to the public at 5.00pm on Thursday 23rd December 2010 and re-open at 9.30am on Tuesday 4th January 2011.

I presume this means the National Library is out as well.

Very disappointed to see the library closed for so long. First exam on the 7th and have to get some readings done. Hopefully the Maynooth library in Kilkenny isn't closed, might get a bit done there