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    #152
    techteacher
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭techteacher


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    Gpt a text from someone who was in Blanchardstiown Shopping Centre and they said that some of the carparks are closed and others are chaotic with piles of snow reducing capacity and causing problems for traffic progress. There'll be some schools somewhere closed for such reasons I'm sure. If a place which processes as much money - with associated easier access to facilities - as that Shopping Centre are struggling to get back to normal some schools will struggle too.

    yes that is a strong possibility we are open but there is no car parking...which means arranging a lift to school..


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    #153
    acequion
    Registered Users Posts: 3,836 ✭✭✭acequion


    C__MC wrote: »
    Has any schools been confirmed shut for tomorrow?

    Mine has just confirmed by text that we're open. [Co. Kerry]


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    #154
    ASISEEIT
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭ASISEEIT


    :PLet this thread die like the snow!


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    #155
    evolving_doors
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    ASISEEIT wrote: »
    :PLet this thread die like the snow!

    Oh it hasn't gone away you know
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    #156
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭emo72


    My kids school in lucan is opening tomorrow. Was just down there. The roads are clear but the paths are not. Everyone was walking on the road. What's going to happen if the paths are still blocked tomorrow? I'd be worried.


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    #157
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    emo72 wrote: »
    My kids school in lucan is opening tomorrow. Was just down there. The roads are clear but the paths are not. Everyone was walking on the road. What's going to happen if the paths are still blocked tomorrow? I'd be worried.

    If the paths are as bad in the morning as they are now where I am I'll hardly ask my kids to walk to school where half the students will be missing anyway.


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    #158
    JonnyM
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    Schools in arklow are closed tomorrow.


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    #159
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,482 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Looking at some photos from Co. Wexford, I can't see some places being able to open.


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    #160
    lmullen
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    All primary and secondary schools closed in Maynooth. Secondary closed in Prosperous. Both north Kildare.


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    #161
    evolving_doors
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    emo72 wrote: »
    My kids school in lucan is opening tomorrow. Was just down there. The roads are clear but the paths are not. Everyone was walking on the road. What's going to happen if the paths are still blocked tomorrow? I'd be worried.

    Paths are easy enough cleared by the maintainence staff if they're not too long.
    It would be more about the car park for staff... if that's covered then ice could be a risk underneath.
    If they can park nearby (shopping centre!) and there's no plumbing issues in the school it'd be all good to go... maybe.


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    #162
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    We are closed. So are all the schools around us.


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    #163
    km79
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    Sky Wrong Fighter wrote: »
    We are closed. So are all the schools around us.

    Where ?


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    #164
    r93kaey5p2izun
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    km79 wrote: »
    Where ?

    South West Dublin


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    #165
    fall
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭fall


    Closed too. South West Dublin. Eight foot drifts all around the school. Footpaths and roads still not cleared. No bus service running to the school.


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    #166
    Powerhouse
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    evolving_doors wrote: »
    Paths are easy enough cleared by the maintainence staff if they're not too long.
    It would be more about the car park for staff... if that's covered then ice could be a risk underneath.
    If they can park nearby (shopping centre!) and there's no plumbing issues in the school it'd be all good to go... maybe.[/QUOTE

    Sorry, when you say maintenance staff who do you mean? If it's council maintenance staff they'll hardly get to all footpaths before morning. If it's school maintenance staff then they'll hardly clear footpaths in housing estates all around the area.

    Not every school is beside a shopping centre.

    A friend of mine showed me a text sent from his school advising that it will be open in the morning. It advised students that they were not to cycles to school as the bike yard would be unavailable and to bring spare socks and trousers "in case of falls" - if the parents/students needed an excuse to not attend tomorrow they just got one from that text!!


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    #167
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    My school must be near enough both of yours in SW D, we're closed, was surprised tbh.


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    #168
    Redser87
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    We're open in north Dublin.


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    #169
    fall
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭fall


    Schools are often old and struggling to function on a normal day with many pre fab buildings. Add huge amounts of snow to the mix and they become an accident waiting to happen.


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    #170
    dory
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    fall wrote: »
    Schools are often old and struggling to function on a normal day with many pre fab buildings. Add huge amounts of snow to the mix and they become an accident waiting to happen.

    True. Ours is freezing most of the time. Our coldest building was only built in 2012 which is infuriating. Couldn't imagine being in there in the snow.


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