Castlerea Ballaghaderreen Road

On the Mayo/Ros border. Was astounded to see that on the Mayo side the main roads were gritted and passable, the Roscommon side was lethal and I heard of so many bad accidents on those roads the past week (particularly the Ballaghderreen road).

Well,

there's 3 cars in the ditch on the stretch from where I live to Roscommon town and that's just 7 km. Actually a guy working for the Co. Co. (van outside the door) lives along the road. Still, they couldn't be arsed to do anything.

I attempted to drive from Carlow back home to Roscommon last night and had to give up, as the roads where pure solid ice. Was better during the day when I took the trip today instead during daytime, but you sure have to be careful.

/M

There are several Co Co's run out of salt.

Kerry and Cork have also run out of salt as far as I know. I'd say none of the County Councils had planned for this.

/M

No gritting done here all day, roads are getting progressively worse. Footpaths are suicide, it is safer to walk on the road sadly...

Okay I'll take it slowly this time and maybe you will understand my points -
First up, the defination of a troll is "someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion" - I do not believe that I have been inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic, you raised the fire service in this discussion ("not start raking up part of a comment made 12 months ago",) not I, so why would I raise it any where else on boards.

Name calling is rather immature don't you think, and really its says a lot about your argument , the lack of.......

And if I am a troll I'm not very prolific, 352 posts in 7 years! Methinks there is a touch of Godwins law in your troll post.

Getting back on topic, You posted something that was partially factual "first fire service will not answer calls" but your implication, whether you ment it or not was that the fire service were not answering calls. It was explained to you in simple terms why the fire service do not go to every call they receive, and it really is very simple, there are other resources that will be employed first or instead. Your example of flooding being one, in fact you would not believe how many people will ring the fire service instead of a plumber when they have a burst pipe in their house, but when you ring one of the regional control centres they will not simply say no, there will be a response, it may not be a fire engine with 5 fire fighters on boards pulling up outside, it may involve the ispca for getting that cat out of the tree or the local authority area office being rung by fire service to deal with flooding. This is the reason for this post, for anyone reading, if you even think you need an emergency service, no matter which one it is, ring them don't feel you are wasting their time or it might be nothing, they will offer assistance. There is great work being done at the moment by all services whether they be local authority, emergency or voluntary services (eg the civil defence are flat out getting health workers around, that translates to getting home helpers to old people stuck in their houses). But if you still feel that the fire service should deal with flooding then raise it with your local councillars, make it an issue at the local elections, but seeing as you mentioned rate payers, how will this extra service be paid for? (remember the bear patrols from the simpsons).

IMO, your moniker is rather apt but remember that old saying, opinions are like arseholes............

Btw regarding the conditions of the roads, I cannot for the life of me understand why the councils (some of which at this stage HAVE run out of salt) are 1. not informing the public so they can understand just how bad the roads are, and 2. why they have not pushed the responsibility for lack of salt back onto the NRA and the transport minister.