⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

The army can't do a single thing until tasked by the government, a government made up by TDs both sides of the Shannon by the way.

Also that's an article from a local provincial paper, are there no local provincial journalists or papers West of the Shannon to report on the suitation ??

Solar panels don't work when the power is off. Sounds crazy yes, but they are designed that way, basically, so as not to try to export to a grid that the ESB thinks is off.

Investment in solar, battery storage and an electric car. The capital outlay to buy a solar and battery storage system to power a house and heat pump of a 16kVa connection for give or take a week and also charge an electric car would cost colossal money 100+ grand, without taking into account 3ph connection fees.
Not to mention you would only be able to export 16kVA back to the grid at anytime so you would never have a payback in normal times. If you wanted a higher export you would need a 3ph connection from the ESB and depending on your location from a 3ph line it could be huge money that’s without the ESB even investigating whether the nearest 3 ph line would have the rating or spare capacity to take the extra loading.
Crazy statement, small bit of timber and a solid fuel stove, or even better a small generator connected to your house via changeover switch enough to power 5kVa would be more than enough to get a 0.75kW circulating pump going for oil fired system or a solid fuel back boiler stove/range.

I still don't fully trust the power. And I am still charging a few things just in case the power goes out again while more restoration works continue on locally.

I have been through a lot of Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Meath and Fermanagh since Saturday morning carrying out repairs for the company I work for. The biggest impedement has to have been lack of mobile signal and I particularly single out Vodafone here. They are just letting cell sites die when batteries expire and it is not acceptable - large urban areas with absolutely nothing including Castleblayney. This is unacceptable on evey level. I was lucky to have another phone on the 3 network where there were none of these issues and hats off to 3 they seem to have managed their network better, at least in this part of the world.
The damage from this storm is like nothing I have ever seen before - I remember those storms in the 80s and the ones at Christmas 97 and 98 and this one was bigger.

There needs to be a task force establisahed which makes it Illegal to have trees growing within a certain distance of a road, dont give me that green crap, there are plenty of places where trees can grow, just not along roads. This alone wil save lives and also landline and fibre based networks

Comreg should also make it cumpulsory and manditory for evey major cell site to have a generator - not just batteries which last 12 hours - this would eliminate some of the issues we are seeing for the last number of days. I would be surprised if many of the sites even have batteries. This is important and if it costs an extra €5 to my monthly bil, Im absolutely fine with that

Watching the news earlier rte clearly thought the dail spat more important than hundreds of thousands still affected in the worse natural disaster of the state.

A visit from the taoiseach to the worst affected areas of the storm would make good optics.

I think it's quite likely there were multiple stingjets and mini tornadoes during the 5am to 7am period.

These obviously didn't hit the weather stations (hence no extreme gusts recorded) but they were widespread from what I've seen, with linear "corridors" of destruction akin to what you would see after a tornado on TV.

The absolute gobshits on here repeatedly arguing that "it wasn't that bad or unprecedented" would want to take a hike.

Despite the fact it affected the least densely populated regions of the country, it was twice as bad as Ophelia according to ESB.

Statistics and wind gust records are useful indicators in normal weather conditions, but they are extremely limited by fixed location weather stations in extreme events like this and are far far less important than the horrendous impact this has had on the people and the environment of the west of Ireland.

I don't know what news you were watching but the first 15 minutes of the nine o'clock news on rte was all about the storm and it's aftermath.

In the midlands here. Just got the electricity back up and running this evening. No power, internet or water since 4.30am friday morning. And I'm only 5 mins away from town. All back now. It was the worst storm I have ever experienced. The damage it has caused to this area is unprecedented. But imagine my anger when I turned on PK on newstalk first thing Friday morning and he says barely a breeze up here in montrose, what storm he says? Then again this morning the first thing on the agenda is Donald trump and his opinion on gaza. Now sorry but our island has experienced a disastrous storm leaving up to a million people without basic facilities. Can we give the worrying about things we can do **** all about a break and maybe worry about our own people here for 5 minutes???!!!

And the government should have been out paying hotels to provide people with hot meals etc. They should have been telling farmers that there was fresh water available in every town affected and to come with the tractors and trailers to fill up troughs and barrells for the poor animals who have barely had a drink of water since friday. This only two examples and I could go on and on but the lack of competent people in gov and in positions of leadership is a joke.

Don't even get me started on the over reliance on electricty and especially "clean" energy in new houses. It's been shown up for what it...all eggs in one basket. The fumes from the high powered generators being used now to power water plants etc id say are making a good dent in any carbon savings these houses have been making.

I am in that area, we didn't get power back until 8'ish and then at 11:06pm we lost power again. The same transformer location caught fire a couple of years ago. I am guessing they should really upgrade it and not just replace with like for like.

North Galway, power was restored this evening. My story since Thursday night.

The noise of the storm that night was unbelievable. Woke at 1 30am, got dressed and was on egg shells untill I got an hour of sleep at 8am. Power went from 2 30am I was pacing around the house and watching transformers blowing light up the sky.

Our house was undamaged mercifully. On venturing out at 10am could see our neighbours window was blown in and guttering destroyed. Got as far as the end of the road and all I could see was trees down 200m up the main road to the school.

Spent Friday clearing the road with a chainsaw and neighbours tractor. Other neighbours had worked the way down towards us and the road was clear around 3pm. Heard word of another neighbours steel shed roof had embedded into the gable end of their house.

Went home and gas camping stove used for food and tea. It kept us going right up to this morning. Wood burning stove in the house kept us heated.

Ventured further afield in the car Saturday. Some of the devastation I could see from the road was unbelievable. I second the lelandi trees are a scourge

Back Sunday morning chopping up trees that were pushed to side of the road when clearing the roads. In all that time we were on the road not one Garda, council van or ESB truck passed. We made safe an Eir pole that was hanging precausly outside the school. The telecom cables and fibre are all over the roads so no fixed line broadband for the foreseeable.

We got the 5th February update for power restoration on Saturday but another for this evening at 9pm. They wernt far wrong in the end.

The cell network was up and down the whole of the time, we were able to go to inlaws for food on Sunday. Water went once but came back.

My biggest take from the whole thing is the goverment will not help you in these situations, it's your neighbours and communities that will pull together. The less said about the national media coverage the better. I have to give credit to Galway Bay fm. They were brilliant with their updates.

Is there good optics or political advantage to be had? Its a **** show and he knows it. More likely he'd be heckled about the ESB running out of repair components, refusing help from the EU and the lack of appropriate preparation / response from those in power before / since the storm.

Hi everyone

from the wilds of South Sligo the wind blew the roof up off my stable/shed and the windows outward across the yard shattered in pieces - the roof came back down and is balancing precariously- this is a concrete structure - the remains of a 30 year old forest also was swept away - and I am one of those people who may have to wait until February 5th to have power restored - what a storm!

Rants at the government, rants at esb, ive seen comments that the government should refund people having to get takeaway and hotel rooms. Just bizarre main character energy