{"id":268098,"date":"2026-01-05T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:00:07","slug":"commuters-facing-treacherous-roads-across-the-north-west-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268098\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters facing treacherous roads across the North West this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads in many parts of the North West are treacherous this morning after temperatures dipped to as low as minus 6 degrees in some places.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann is warning that many counties will be affected by frost, ice and freezing fog patches this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gardai are advising the public not to make unnecessary journeys this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the north and west were hit with snow showers with accumulations in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Status Yellow Snow-Ice warning is in effect for Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal Cavan, Monaghan the remainder of Connacht and Louth and Met Eireann has said that other counties could receive some wintry showers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The warning is valid until 11 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A number of schools will be closed today in the North West while in the North a significant number will remain closed due to the weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feehily schools will not be running today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Full list of school closures is available on our website oceanfm.ie<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Locally roads in Tubbercurry are said to be dangerous with HGV vehicles finding it difficult to pass through the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are asking the public to avoid all non-essential journeys in this area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Leitrim the roads are dangerous all over.\u00a0 The N16 and roads around Glenfarne are said to be very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Donegal there have been further falls of snow as well as freezing conditions.\u00a0 Once again Gardai have advised caution especially around the Donegal Gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roads in many parts of the North West are treacherous this morning after temperatures dipped to as low&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-268098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}