{"id":724560,"date":"2026-01-27T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/724560\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:10:14","slug":"northern-ireland-school-closures-storm-chandra-hits-causing-power-cuts-and-roads-disruption-as-met-office-issue-amber-and-yellow-weather-warnings-for-wind-and-rain-with-snow-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/724560\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland school closures: Storm Chandra hits causing power cuts and roads disruption as Met Office issue amber and yellow weather warnings for wind and rain with snow possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NI <strong>Cup Semi-Final postponed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s BetMcLean League Cup Semi-Final between Glentoran and Coleraine has been postponed a day in advance due to the adverse weather conditions affecting Northern Ireland because of Storm Chandra.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which was scheduled to be played tomorrow at 7:45pm at the east Belfast venue, has been called off as a result of storm damage and flooding and has already been rescheduled for Tuesday February 3 with the same kick-off time.<\/p>\n<p>Should The Oval not pass a pitch inspection next Tuesday then the game would be reversed and played at the Coleraine Showgrounds a day later on Wednesday February 4, again with a 7:45pm kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows the Met Office\u2019s amber weather warning for strong winds and, although the winds are supposed to die down overnight, a fresh yellow warning has been issued for ice on Wednesday morning, running from 3am to 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s League clash between the Glens and Cliftonville was postponed after the east Belfast pitch failed an early morning inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The other League Cup Semi-Final between Linfield and Ballymena United, which was originally scheduled for 7:45pm on Tuesday night, is still set to take place in its rescheduled slot on Wednesday night after it was put back by 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NI Cup Semi-Final postponed\u00a0 Wednesday\u2019s BetMcLean League Cup Semi-Final between Glentoran and Coleraine has been postponed a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6722,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-724560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christopher-leebody","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115968175246892611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}