“A request for emergency aid from the EU was issued by the Irish government on Saturday to assist with restoration works after Storm Éowyn.
Officials from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands indicated that they could deliver much-needed emergency generators to Ireland but asked for more details, such as the voltages and quantity needed in the government’s request.
The Journal reported today that the Irish government did not respond to the EU for two days, leaving the Danish, German and Dutch officials on standby for the time being”
Christ, they’re so incompetent
Probably had power at home and couldn’t be bothered to respond.
Like I said elsewhere. We don’t do emergency planning, stockpiling or preparation at national level. We’re horrific at it
Helpful, but doesn’t seem like a hell of a lot of capacity – I assume those are going to go to Irish water pumping stations primarily.
I don’t know why but the whole thing seems to lack any urgency from the Government. It was basically a hurricane level event in some areas and the power networks took a hell of a hammering, but so have a lot of people’s homes.
They need to be getting out to people to make sure they’ve food, heat, water etc and I’m not really seeing much coverage of any of that online at least – if it’s happening nobody’s really making things clear.
I’m getting very much a “ah sure it must be something down the country” vibes about it…
Sound, thanks
This crap handling is a warning to the monumental screw up if there is flak towards us by trump or damage of data cables or FDI collapse or Russian aggression ( towards Britain)..
They spent weeks handling our brass medals ronone another over covid but spent the time pre hurricane to drink and schmooze in Dail bar.
There are.many international actors willing to exploit ,….sure it will.be grand strategy
16 billion euro surplus budget folks… Fcuking hell…
As many as 13
100% Incompetent from the government, ffs even hobby level weatger forecasters were saying this was going to be bad, days out from the storm..
Knowing that it was going to be bad and did absolutely nothing to prepare for the worst. The west got hammered with hurricane level winds…
Hopefully they can actually use the generators and they don’t end up stuck in the docks like the ones they bought that are too heavy to bring on the m50, what a waste of money.
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“A request for emergency aid from the EU was issued by the Irish government on Saturday to assist with restoration works after Storm Éowyn.
Officials from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands indicated that they could deliver much-needed emergency generators to Ireland but asked for more details, such as the voltages and quantity needed in the government’s request.
The Journal reported today that the Irish government did not respond to the EU for two days, leaving the Danish, German and Dutch officials on standby for the time being”
Christ, they’re so incompetent
Probably had power at home and couldn’t be bothered to respond.
Like I said elsewhere. We don’t do emergency planning, stockpiling or preparation at national level. We’re horrific at it
Helpful, but doesn’t seem like a hell of a lot of capacity – I assume those are going to go to Irish water pumping stations primarily.
I don’t know why but the whole thing seems to lack any urgency from the Government. It was basically a hurricane level event in some areas and the power networks took a hell of a hammering, but so have a lot of people’s homes.
They need to be getting out to people to make sure they’ve food, heat, water etc and I’m not really seeing much coverage of any of that online at least – if it’s happening nobody’s really making things clear.
I’m getting very much a “ah sure it must be something down the country” vibes about it…
Sound, thanks
This crap handling is a warning to the monumental screw up if there is flak towards us by trump or damage of data cables or FDI collapse or Russian aggression ( towards Britain)..
They spent weeks handling our brass medals ronone another over covid but spent the time pre hurricane to drink and schmooze in Dail bar.
There are.many international actors willing to exploit ,….sure it will.be grand strategy
16 billion euro surplus budget folks… Fcuking hell…
As many as 13
100% Incompetent from the government, ffs even hobby level weatger forecasters were saying this was going to be bad, days out from the storm..
Knowing that it was going to be bad and did absolutely nothing to prepare for the worst. The west got hammered with hurricane level winds…
Hopefully they can actually use the generators and they don’t end up stuck in the docks like the ones they bought that are too heavy to bring on the m50, what a waste of money.
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