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They relish a colourful turn of phrase, a clever riposte, a wicked insult. They treasure a bon mot; a good malapropism or a splendidly outrageous mixed metaphor. This is one of the few countries where newspapers carry long columns of quotations headed "This Week They Said". What makes our phrases and quotations worth recording?</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Some illuminate for us aspects of national life and debate. We remember Sean Lemass's comment in 1928 that Fianna Fail was a "slightly constitutional party", because it described precisely the party's constitutional role at the time, and many recall George Colley's (now so prescient) warning in 1967 about low standards in high places because he alone dared voice an unpalatable truth. When justice minister Sean MacEoin expressed a fear in 1951 about getting a "belt of the crozier", the phrase entered our political lexicon because it so aptly described the relationship between politicians and the bishops.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-1a2366a7fdcdbf" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:300px"><div id="arcad_f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-1a2366a7fdcdbf" class="arcad ad-300x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Other quotations betray a certain cast of mind, often unique in its Irishness, such as the 1966 comment by Oliver J. Flanagan, TD: "Sex never came to Ireland until Telifis Eireann went on the air." Trawling through the history of the century one finds many such examples of unintentionally revealing remarks. We know exactly what UVF leader, Billy Mitchell meant when he said in 1975, "I may be a bad Christian but I'm a good Protestant," and how Joseph Murray, president of the League of Decency could say in 1974, "I have received pledges from 2,000 people and two Protestants."</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Some phrases bear out the wisdom of Seamus Heaney's advice: "Whatever you say, you say nothing." Among them must be numbered Brian Lenihan's "on mature recollection" which came to signify a changed story. We recall others because we simply enjoy double entendres in high places, such as Jack Lynch's "I would not like to leave contraception on the long finger too long," or the then-Archbishop of Dublin Dr Kevin McNamara's plea for contraceptive legislation to "be treated as a dead letter." We hoot with laughter at Margaret Thatcher's farewell compliment to Willie Whitelaw, her former NI Secretary, that "every prime minister needs a Willie".</p><div id="fusion-static-enter:html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0"></div><div><div style="border-block-start: 4px solid var(--global-neutral-2);font-family:var(--font-family-secondary);font-weight: var(--c-heading-font-weight);font-size:1.1rem; padding-top:0.8rem;margin-top:2rem;">READ MORE</div></div><div id="fusion-static-exit:html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="html-block-f0f1Ui2nzrty1pg-3-4-0"></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">We also delight if the mask slips, and we hear what someone really thinks, as when British politician Reginald Maudling was overheard saying as he left Belfast "For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!"</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Some of the most important phrases of the century are not so well remembered however. Few people are aware of the crucial words of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George when he invited Irish republicans to a conference "to ascertain how the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British Empire can best be reconciled with Irish national aspirations." This phrase became the foundation of the subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty, just as the 1990 statement of NI Secretary Peter Brooke that "the British government has no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland" became the corner stone of the peace process (Note that there is no comma after the word "selfish" which would quite change the meaning).</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-1d62ee45438e95" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-1d62ee45438e95" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Lloyd George cautioned MPs during a debate on the Treaty, that "you do not settle great complicated problems, the moment you utter a good phrase about them." "Good phrases" have, however, played a unique role in shaping our perceptions of history, and many echoed down through the century. This is especially true of the anti-Home Rule rhetoric used by Edward Carson and others, described by British prime minister, Herbert Asquith, as a "reckless rodomontade" which "furnishes for the future a complete grammar of anarchy".</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">How often have modern Unionist politicians repeated such catch cries as Carson's "Ulster is not for sale". Republican speechmakers of today also liberally use such emotive quotations as Padraig Pearse's ". . . the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead . . ." or Terence MacSwiney's ". . . it is not they who can inflict most, but they who can suffer most, will conquer." Winston Churchill derided the "frothings" of the anti-Home Rule mob, suggesting that "when the worst comes to the worst, we shall find that civil war evaporates in uncivil words". It was not his only Irish misjudgement. In 1945 we find the UK representative in Dublin, Sir John Maffey, warning Churchill not to take on Eamon de Valera in open debate as "phrases make history here".</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Literature also supplied many phrases which endured. When the Bishop of Derry Edward Daly said despairingly in 1993, "The gunmen are not dying for the people, the people are dying for the gunmen," he was quoting almost verbatim from Sean O'Casey's 1923 play, The Shadow of a Gunman. Fine Gael TD John Kelly caused an uproar in August, 1981 for saying the State was "being rent by a farrow of cannibal piglets", but he was merely taking his cue from James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, who said "Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow." W.B. Yeats gave many hostages to fortune when he chronicled in verse the emergence of "a terrible beauty", but he also wondered in later life if some words of his might have sent out "certain men the English shot".</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">He was not the first to regret his use of stirring language. In the very first year of the century John Ingram, author of the ballad Who Fears to Speak of '98, disclaimed any sympathy "with those who preach sedition in our own day".</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Politicians sometimes rework the phrases of their enemies to fit the needs of the moment. When the prominent unionist, David Brewster, told colleagues in 1998 that the present Stormont might give unionists "freedom to achieve freedom", he was mimicking Michael Collins's assurance in 1921 that the Treaty gave not "ultimate freedom" but "the freedom to achieve it".</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Likewise when John Hume - who has defined political leadership as being about "changing the language of others" - defended meeting Sinn Fein by saying "No stone should be left unturned to advance the cause of peace", he was taking his line from unionist leader James Craig, who justified meeting Michael Collins with the words: "No stone should be left unturned to try to stop the murdering that is going on in Ireland." When unionist leader Brian Faulkner wondered aloud after putting his signature to the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement, "which one of us has signed his own death warrant," he was consciously echoing Collins's best remembered quotation after signing the 1921 Treaty, "I may have signed my actual death warrant." (All the Sunningdale signatories stayed alive except Faulkner, who died in a hunting accident).</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-15e3b714c5264b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-15e3b714c5264b" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Two years ago David Trimble called the new Northern Ireland assembly "a pluralist parliament for a pluralist people", in a deliberate reworking of his predecessor James Craig's famous 1934 utterance: "All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State." On another occasion he invoked the unionist election slogans of 1925 to taunt the IRA for refusing to decommission weapons, saying: "There is a certain irony, is there not, in the IRA's constant litany of "Not an inch!" and "What we have we hold!" '</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The words "Not" and "No" have dominated the unionist lexicon throughout the century, typically in the "Ulster Says No" campaign against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, and the more recent "No guns, no government". John Hume remarked once, "If you took the word `no' out of the English language, most of them would be speechless". Trimble warned recently "We're perfectly capable, should the need arise, of saying `no'. After all, it's going back to what we know best." Here he was also picking up a controversial phrase by Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy, who threatened that if negotiations failed "we simply go back to what we know best."</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">A new grammar of anarchy has been written by Sinn Fein, including Gerry Adams's famous remark about the IRA: "They haven't gone away, you know," and Danny Morrison's (often misquoted) comment, "will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand, and an armalite in this hand, we take power in Ireland?" This was his version of an "Irish solution to an Irish problem", the words used by Charles Haughey to describe his contraceptive legislation in 1979.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">If Irish phrases employed to cope with Irish problems cause confusion to outsiders, it is worth remembering the despairing comment of British writers W.C. Stellar and R.J. Yeatman in 1930: "Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question." But perhaps the best advice for the newcomer to Irish politics is that tendered by Willie Whitelaw. 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They relish a colourful turn of phrase, a clever riposte, a wicked insult. They treasure a bon mot; a good malapropism or a splendidly outrageous mixed metaphor. This is one of the few countries where newspapers carry long columns of quotations headed \"This Week They Said\". What makes our phrases and quotations worth recording?"},{"_id":"5HMXFSHLJZD6RK7PPRGHZJHIBI","type":"text","content":"Some illuminate for us aspects of national life and debate. We remember Sean Lemass's comment in 1928 that Fianna Fail was a \"slightly constitutional party\", because it described precisely the party's constitutional role at the time, and many recall George Colley's (now so prescient) warning in 1967 about low standards in high places because he alone dared voice an unpalatable truth. When justice minister Sean MacEoin expressed a fear in 1951 about getting a \"belt of the crozier\", the phrase entered our political lexicon because it so aptly described the relationship between politicians and the bishops.","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"AZNERW352BANPPD2Z5BRNNEQQE","type":"text","content":"Other quotations betray a certain cast of mind, often unique in its Irishness, such as the 1966 comment by Oliver J. Flanagan, TD: \"Sex never came to Ireland until Telifis Eireann went on the air.\" Trawling through the history of the century one finds many such examples of unintentionally revealing remarks. We know exactly what UVF leader, Billy Mitchell meant when he said in 1975, \"I may be a bad Christian but I'm a good Protestant,\" and how Joseph Murray, president of the League of Decency could say in 1974, \"I have received pledges from 2,000 people and two Protestants.\"","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"TP5YED5NF5DVNHQEYEAXOFTHZY","type":"text","content":"Some phrases bear out the wisdom of Seamus Heaney's advice: \"Whatever you say, you say nothing.\" Among them must be numbered Brian Lenihan's \"on mature recollection\" which came to signify a changed story. We recall others because we simply enjoy double entendres in high places, such as Jack Lynch's \"I would not like to leave contraception on the long finger too long,\" or the then-Archbishop of Dublin Dr Kevin McNamara's plea for contraceptive legislation to \"be treated as a dead letter.\" We hoot with laughter at Margaret Thatcher's farewell compliment to Willie Whitelaw, her former NI Secretary, that \"every prime minister needs a Willie\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"5GKFDU5MYZHUBK5DNC5KVOXD2I","type":"text","content":"We also delight if the mask slips, and we hear what someone really thinks, as when British politician Reginald Maudling was overheard saying as he left Belfast \"For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!\"","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"W54LRJTVQFGHJI7V5JBTJU2WEY","type":"text","content":"Some of the most important phrases of the century are not so well remembered however. Few people are aware of the crucial words of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George when he invited Irish republicans to a conference \"to ascertain how the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British Empire can best be reconciled with Irish national aspirations.\" This phrase became the foundation of the subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty, just as the 1990 statement of NI Secretary Peter Brooke that \"the British government has no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland\" became the corner stone of the peace process (Note that there is no comma after the word \"selfish\" which would quite change the meaning).","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"PA6QFQ2OI5ET5MBCL54TF25ZRU","type":"text","content":"Lloyd George cautioned MPs during a debate on the Treaty, that \"you do not settle great complicated problems, the moment you utter a good phrase about them.\" \"Good phrases\" have, however, played a unique role in shaping our perceptions of history, and many echoed down through the century. This is especially true of the anti-Home Rule rhetoric used by Edward Carson and others, described by British prime minister, Herbert Asquith, as a \"reckless rodomontade\" which \"furnishes for the future a complete grammar of anarchy\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"WR4ZKDTU3NF5HL2QAG3PVH627E","type":"text","content":"How often have modern Unionist politicians repeated such catch cries as Carson's \"Ulster is not for sale\". Republican speechmakers of today also liberally use such emotive quotations as Padraig Pearse's \". . . the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead . . .\" or Terence MacSwiney's \". . . it is not they who can inflict most, but they who can suffer most, will conquer.\" Winston Churchill derided the \"frothings\" of the anti-Home Rule mob, suggesting that \"when the worst comes to the worst, we shall find that civil war evaporates in uncivil words\". It was not his only Irish misjudgement. In 1945 we find the UK representative in Dublin, Sir John Maffey, warning Churchill not to take on Eamon de Valera in open debate as \"phrases make history here\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"C7WZJIVLVRBMTFAPZBCFWTAGIA","type":"text","content":"Literature also supplied many phrases which endured. When the Bishop of Derry Edward Daly said despairingly in 1993, \"The gunmen are not dying for the people, the people are dying for the gunmen,\" he was quoting almost verbatim from Sean O'Casey's 1923 play, The Shadow of a Gunman. Fine Gael TD John Kelly caused an uproar in August, 1981 for saying the State was \"being rent by a farrow of cannibal piglets\", but he was merely taking his cue from James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, who said \"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.\" W.B. Yeats gave many hostages to fortune when he chronicled in verse the emergence of \"a terrible beauty\", but he also wondered in later life if some words of his might have sent out \"certain men the English shot\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"WVZIMAQEHVFTDATZP4NOKKTQDA","type":"text","content":"He was not the first to regret his use of stirring language. In the very first year of the century John Ingram, author of the ballad Who Fears to Speak of '98, disclaimed any sympathy \"with those who preach sedition in our own day\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"SDPZRRFTPNARZJLI43U5OWWP3I","type":"text","content":"Politicians sometimes rework the phrases of their enemies to fit the needs of the moment. When the prominent unionist, David Brewster, told colleagues in 1998 that the present Stormont might give unionists \"freedom to achieve freedom\", he was mimicking Michael Collins's assurance in 1921 that the Treaty gave not \"ultimate freedom\" but \"the freedom to achieve it\".","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"FWAO5TZUNVFFZFETK7QIRX5QBU","type":"text","content":"Likewise when John Hume - who has defined political leadership as being about \"changing the language of others\" - defended meeting Sinn Fein by saying \"No stone should be left unturned to advance the cause of peace\", he was taking his line from unionist leader James Craig, who justified meeting Michael Collins with the words: \"No stone should be left unturned to try to stop the murdering that is going on in Ireland.\" When unionist leader Brian Faulkner wondered aloud after putting his signature to the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement, \"which one of us has signed his own death warrant,\" he was consciously echoing Collins's best remembered quotation after signing the 1921 Treaty, \"I may have signed my actual death warrant.\" (All the Sunningdale signatories stayed alive except Faulkner, who died in a hunting accident).","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"K6ZXJKYXPVFNNDGEA4IZSQBU4M","type":"text","content":"Two years ago David Trimble called the new Northern Ireland assembly \"a pluralist parliament for a pluralist people\", in a deliberate reworking of his predecessor James Craig's famous 1934 utterance: \"All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State.\" On another occasion he invoked the unionist election slogans of 1925 to taunt the IRA for refusing to decommission weapons, saying: \"There is a certain irony, is there not, in the IRA's constant litany of \"Not an inch!\" and \"What we have we hold!\" '","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"X4PYZROFZRFGPMTRIL6CG6ETGA","type":"text","content":"The words \"Not\" and \"No\" have dominated the unionist lexicon throughout the century, typically in the \"Ulster Says No\" campaign against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, and the more recent \"No guns, no government\". John Hume remarked once, \"If you took the word `no' out of the English language, most of them would be speechless\". Trimble warned recently \"We're perfectly capable, should the need arise, of saying `no'. After all, it's going back to what we know best.\" Here he was also picking up a controversial phrase by Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy, who threatened that if negotiations failed \"we simply go back to what we know best.\"","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"4X2NHFTZZFCKRDPPEYLGX7IZTE","type":"text","content":"A new grammar of anarchy has been written by Sinn Fein, including Gerry Adams's famous remark about the IRA: \"They haven't gone away, you know,\" and Danny Morrison's (often misquoted) comment, \"will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand, and an armalite in this hand, we take power in Ireland?\" This was his version of an \"Irish solution to an Irish problem\", the words used by Charles Haughey to describe his contraceptive legislation in 1979.","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"BU7LKICZ7BB5RI473CTPXXX3F4","type":"text","content":"If Irish phrases employed to cope with Irish problems cause confusion to outsiders, it is worth remembering the despairing comment of British writers W.C. Stellar and R.J. Yeatman in 1930: \"Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question.\" But perhaps the best advice for the newcomer to Irish politics is that tendered by Willie Whitelaw. Asked once for his views on Irish history he replied, wisely: \"One must be careful not to prejudge the past.\"","paywall":"paywall"},{"_id":"L2I455JC5BGRJHUGZXAUY6U3TA","type":"text","content":"\"All the quotations above and some 3,000 more are listed in chronological order in Ireland in Quotes, A History of the 20th Century, by Conor O'Clery, published on Tuesday by O'Brien Press","paywall":"paywall"}],"created_date":"2021-11-25T10:57:11.172Z","revision":{"revision_id":"YHZI3MLODZHA3CL4DP76DCAWDE","parent_id":"NQAJYRTLVND6LCDJV4KDP2WQYA","editions":["default"],"branch":"default","published":true},"last_updated_date":"2022-01-13T02:07:37.840Z","headlines":{"basic":"Whatever you say, on mature recollection, say nothing"},"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"irishtimes"},"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"comments":{"allow_comments":false,"display_comments":false},"workflow":{"status_code":6},"subheadlines":{"basic":"Irish people are said to appreciate eloquence. 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Vehicles were also abandoned on the N20 between Cork and Limerick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEGF7L3FVZFKLKCW73R3NAURII","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861533},"content":"Meanwhile, a woman who was killed in a road traffic crash in Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kilkenny/\" target=\"_blank\">Kilkenny</a> on Friday has been named as Mary Grennan, a married pensioner with adult children and 12 grandchildren.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q3IVDNG4F5FCXE6KCKULMJQI3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861534},"content":"Ms Grennan (75) was the driver in one of two cars involved in a crash on the N25 at Luffany, Slieverue, and was pronounced dead at the scene.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQST4NGUQNA4RILIPMKZM6NV4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861535},"content":"Her remains were removed to the mortuary at University Hospital Waterford, where a postmortem examination was due to take place as part of the Garda investigation into the fatal crash. Ms Grennan is survived by her husband, Paddy, and five children, John, Bridget, James, Declan and Patrick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PU4UX4M2QBDRXNQNF6GETZR4A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861536},"content":"The driver of the other vehicle, a man in his 30s, and his female passenger (20s), were taken for treatment to the same hospital. However, their injuries from the crash, which occurred on Friday at 5.50pm, were not believed to be life-threatening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDUV3BMWYND65OVZBATJGTCBY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861537},"content":"Gardaí in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/waterford/\" target=\"_blank\">Waterford</a> station have appealed for witnesses to come forward. They are keen to speak to any road user on the N25 between Luffany roundabout, Slieverue, and Glenmore from 5:30pm and 6:15pm to make any dashcam footage available to them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGWTNJK5WVDEBDKZIS75TP4NEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861538},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"XF6OPHORJREBBI5BKEEKJF5LRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861539},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFNMENU4YZG5FNESJMDWEGKHIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861540},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSF3IAG6SFFIPJF22ET4CCHJ54","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861541},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQXDRFJQEJCNBNFOVD4SGFIAEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099861542},"content":"Ms Grennan was the second person to die on the roads since the start of the year. A man in his 60s suffered fatal injuries last Thursday night just before midnight when the vehicle he was driving hit a pole on East Wall Road, Dublin 1.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Lally"}},"name":"Conor Lally"}]},"description":{"basic":"Impassable roads in south, west and centre of country due to build up of snow"},"display_date":"2025-01-06T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Drivers abandon vehicles as snow in several counties results in extreme conditions on roads ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KYZUADDLCBH5PODYN3YKLOFE5I","auth":{"1":"3e5df625c9d50cc5e7c81d878013dd9873e57c8373e599dd97cea99046925a3d"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KYZUADDLCBH5PODYN3YKLOFE5I.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/2025/01/06/drivers-abandon-vehicles-as-snow-in-several-counties-results-in-extreme-conditions-on-roads/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ireland"}}}},{"_id":"CORBD6OWLNAC5NEQOF2UYJHWPE","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/2025/01/05/ireland-weather-update-heavy-snow-in-parts-as-met-eireann-forecasts-wintry-conditions-to-spread-across-country/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5VKM55IAS5AIPPYVDJKGQTGOLY","additional_properties":{"_id":"VF6ZH6X3K5DK3NDZMWNJBPXZEU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736110140000},"id":"timestamp-86840","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"X3POAATVSRAKPLRQ2OVTBEKNJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736064986896},"content":"Main points","type":"header"},{"_id":"T6TGD7DO2FHYRHUAZVM6R7NVQI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"QDSWK6QYCVBCBEVT6X7XY7WJIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099390412},"content":"Key reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"T6TGD7DO2FHYRHUAZVM6R7NVQI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"743G452FHZF3BIESKRURCUL4G4","additional_properties":{"_id":"LWOAZLCCJRCB7AWMXWK47C7JCM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736067420439},"id":"timestamp-22187","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QY7PPMRQPZGJHDSKH62MJVESL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292082},"content":"Good morning. Much of the south of the country woke up to heavy snowfall with several weather warning in place until 5pm today. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/met-eireann/\" target=\"_blank\">Met Éireann</a> says snow, sleet and rain will continue to fall across the country today the biggest accumulations of snow in Munster and south Leinster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHQQMKL4HNBWXM5GIW35JIR32A","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZBG4W7EFXZAMNCJ5IG4NLFUPGA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736067675242},"id":"timestamp-1376","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MH6OED37BNCZXG5V2EPXRMMG5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292084},"content":"Kerry County Council is advising the public to avoid all unnecessary travel. Council crews were out overnight and will continue to treat roads throughout the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFKZQZDT7BBTFLZKHVNCZWPKV4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7BVCEA2VENEIXOMO6KBXIHLYW4","additional_properties":{"_id":"PMDO23BPGNCTFH4DQUGKWX2JDM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736068400840},"id":"timestamp-51902","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EUH6TWEIXRDOVFZWDRZJITXDUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292087},"content":"As of 8.30am, about 28,000 homes, farms and businesses were without power, according to the ESB. The areas most affected include<i><b> </b></i>Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow, Laois and Wicklow. Crews and partner contractors have been deployed in all impacted areas and are restoring power where safe to do so, the ESB said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCAG7I2N65DHJN4V6UPSSIQOQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292088},"content":"Real-time information on power outages and restoration times is available on p<a href=\"http://www.powercheck.ie/\">owercheck.ie</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJMBA62MIJGP3EB5KIO323XEP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"MSI2RTCK4FCVHGHEBV4UCS2YFU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736069046383},"id":"timestamp-91120","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EBJCCOJCK5ANBGF5JDHFVW4QBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292090},"content":"Commuters are being advised to plan ahead as some bus services are facing disruption. Several Bus Éireann routes have been delayed or cancelled, including services to Limerick, Cork, Galway and Kerry. All cancellations and delays can be checked on the Bus Éireann website <a href=\"https://www.buseireann.ie/service-updates/416705\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQ4YHPOA2VHRDPM6MHNHJVG2LQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"RLJSNE2ZXZDPRIHIGKGWHQVFQE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736069367162},"id":"timestamp-88530","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IRM4JKH6AZBXVKUSOJPYJ2ETSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292092},"content":"At 8am Irish Rail reported no weather-related issues with services operating as usual.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7OY2GTVIZB7NAIF6HMYRM3PEM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ZGBSAFWWBVFFVPLIZY7JQE2HYY","additional_properties":{"_id":"UENWDCQWARCX7FMPWRB3AUJX7Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736069599163},"id":"timestamp-38622","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"G4FXXZXJ3MFV75S5NVZ6URQF2E","additional_properties":{"_id":"P7W3Q7ZERBHNPJ3XUWH4E2F6C4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CLP22LZVF5A7VAK4ICUWIY7J5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292096},"content":"In the UK, several major airports have been forced to suspend flights due to heavy snowfall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3VP4QD6LJAPPKMH7P3AFM5GRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292097},"content":"Manchester and Liverpool John Lennon Airport both closed runways on Sunday morning while Birmingham Airport had suspended operations for several hours overnight “for snow clearing and safety reasons”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OU2PYF7MR5ESJIGTBHCKC4IVQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292098},"content":"Bristol Airport reopened at about 11pm on Saturday but warned of ongoing delays because aircraft were out of position following flight cancellations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIMMSLKYXNGTFHROFMWNU3TCJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292099},"content":"Leeds Bradford Airport said it had closed its runway on Sunday morning after disruption caused by heavy snowfall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7NMHGBZVVBFFJQ2AIC3YTJYDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292100},"content":"All the affected airports urged passengers to check with their airline for updates. – PA","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSYFAUF2LZEMBPKYYJIA5L5J7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"FAJ4X6WJ4NE3DOS2FKNC353VHE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736070132539},"id":"timestamp-44268","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"T6TGD7DO2FHYRHUAZVM6R7NVQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292102},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRRGP54XHJGRHLRHR262CE74SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292103},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/met-eireann/\" target=\"_blank\">Met Éireann </a>has issued extended warnings for parts of the country. Here is where things stand:","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BYES2H5GFGBBGEHXNJIXG7XYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292104},"content":"A Status Orange rain and snow warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford is in place until 5pm on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O42GY4Y7DJAI5LXPKAH7GCVI4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292105},"content":"A Status Orange snow and ice warning for counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Wicklow, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary is also in place until 5pm on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKHBFQYPRBE73N2BH4J2GNCKB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292106},"content":"From 5pm-8pm on Sunday, Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Wicklow and Munster will be under a Status Orange snow and ice warning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A2OGFDE47RFC5HTL5OGGX45ILE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292107},"content":"Elsewhere, Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Longford, Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Wexford and Connacht are under a Status Yellow snow and ice warning until 5pm on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZITXLNPZ55FB5GHMKP4TO7ZCP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292108},"content":"Yellow snow and ice warnings have also been issued by the UK Met Office for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, valid until 6pm on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5Q6KFW3YGVGXHEPCAWV7PRBK3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292109},"content":"From 5pm on Sunday until midnight on Monday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/met-eireann/\" target=\"_blank\">Met Éireann</a> has issued a Status Yellow snow and ice warning for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan and Munster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRSCCAQVQNDCFCOUDZ563AAP6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292110},"content":"Moving to later in the week, a Status Yellow low temperature and ice warning is in place for the entire country from 5pm on Sunday until 12pm on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AON7TVFFVDITFIOYAJWAEMXJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"JN35S6CTUNEG5GFPFN3ZIDB5RM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736071646821},"id":"timestamp-62228","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HKIORWH5DBEMLD42GPPB5AEAQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736072292112},"content":"Some photos from Ballylynan, Co Laois, where council crews have been clearing and gritting roads after overnight snowfall:","type":"text"},{"_id":"7TCQHBAF23746THNVC7EHFEZS4","additional_properties":{"_id":"JB4YZEYMTZG7FERQCSHVRGZI34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DRTWLALK76PD4J5YGANRIM57KY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GIIEOANS7VGHLF2ZOJN7BPIDDQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WCGURHDJPH73VHL6PYC4AMKKHA","additional_properties":{"_id":"PH6PMTSOK5B4NATEOP5PJHAZBU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MH75GCGK6JFK7DTUYU74VVX6KI","additional_properties":{"_id":"HW26HHPUSVEVDO2T4MLSIWN36Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736072305283},"id":"timestamp-24319","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XCT5CXVK5VB4VH2XIJEIHQI7BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736073124777},"content":"Clare County Council is asking all road users to avoid the R474 Ennis to Miltown Malbay Road west of Kilmaley village as the road is currently impassable due to recent heavy snowfall. Road users are also urged to to avoid the R460 Inagh to Miltown Malbay road which has received heavy snowfall and is subject to hazardous driving conditions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LVQPPZTHVERTP6KHV7SPFI3SU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YBAYGWY3GVHXVCL23EDVYWVFTE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736073500195},"id":"timestamp-65294","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MNR2NMTQSVCHFNOSLK4WR7WZX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477674},"content":"Shannon Airport has said it is fully operational with some flights experiencing delays this morning. Intending passengers are advised to contact their airline for the latest flight information.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6POGOCSAUVCNBK2JQXZI3LF5KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477675},"content":"Passengers travelling to the airport today are advised to allow extra time for their journey and to drive with extreme care.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RPG2336HHVDNHGWIWD4423ICUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477676},"content":"Delays are expected to a number of flights over the course of the day and passengers are advised to contact their airlines for the latest flight information. The situation is being exacerbated by the temporary closures of some UK airports, the airport said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45AJOFLDGZFCNFQNEV3DYSCL2E","additional_properties":{"_id":"PNR5ICNPNRAYPF24W5QYOQWMLA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736073672145},"id":"timestamp-67884","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YZTW3J35TRC3BD4VAW5RSDIKMQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TKPLNY3H2VH55AP2UNJDJWFEIY","additional_properties":{"_id":"MTEUBASPNNCYBAKOE2VI763UWU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736074303530},"id":"timestamp-96161","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NW322LEVUJH7BPACONMOKPT55I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477680},"content":"From Southern Correspondent Barry Roche:","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJ7DO6NCJNH6XBCDVTJTR7AP7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477681},"content":"Heavy overnight snow is causing major problems in Charleville and surrounding areas of North Cork with the main street of the town barely passable and many motorists abandoning cars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LMNT3LJ6JJCNXB7GYUMRMF6P4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477682},"content":"Gardaí in Charleville are advising people to stay at home with surrounding towns and villages such as Dromina, Newtownshandrum and Ballyhea also badly affected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGNDTRUS4BHSPCHBX7XB45OHL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477683},"content":"“Nobody has had to be dug out of their cars but people are abandoning them and having to walk -it’s bad so we would urge people to stay at home at the moment,” said a Garda spokesman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB2IARQZNVBZHNRR6OXHUX2RLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477684},"content":"The Charleville to Kilmallock Road is particularly bad with heavy snow around Garrienderk while there are also reports of a lorry stuck in snow on the N20 south of the town near Lidl.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KZLM34ESRE45KSRN37VIKTC3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477685},"content":"Local Fianna Fáil Cllr Ian Doyle told The Irish Times that some places around Charleville had almost a foot – or 25 cms of snow – on the ground after heavy overnight snow showers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MO6FCYPK2REABC2Z5SY4GB4CEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477686},"content":"“It’s really bad – Cork County Council in fairness to them have sent a snow plough down the main street in Charleville so it’s passable – just about for the moment but it’s bad here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGAGAXT5IVGJVAXSSFXZL54AOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477687},"content":"Cork County Council issued a warning on X, advising people to stay at home: “Weather and road conditions are continuing to deteriorate in the Charleville area with heavy snow.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PXAOOKN25BKJOVNKT3LFMHNSU","additional_properties":{"_id":"2UJCLVRXRRGVPGBV36GEDRCDH4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TEUTXX5YCNGRTJOGUWQM5YD5CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"GLXRFCFGEJB3NNVJMJM36JOAAM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736075203625},"id":"timestamp-42764","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SBHNLSZ63RBMVKZPSRUCM7YP44","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"MFISLKBYBNGQXK57L7DSSGODPU","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PFCCOOYNVCFTCTC2EIN6PTCXU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736075584294},"id":"timestamp-71391","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CMAIN27XFJFGNIGPGHD55OJGI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477692},"content":"A spokesperson for The Shannon Airport Group has confirmed that a second aircraft has diverted to Shannon Airport this morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOQFAMIB7JB3HDLZ3DTF2PUCMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477693},"content":"“FR 611 routing from Dublin to Kerry Airport diverted to Shannon and landed safely at 10.37am. Earlier this morning, a Norse Atlantic flight (UBT5876) routing Cancún to Manchester diverted to Shannon Airport. The aircraft, a Boeing 789, landed safely at 8.41am,” they said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTKDHFRGI5HDBJBPGIPAY6Y5YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736076477694},"content":"Shannon Airport said it is fully operational with some flights experiencing delays. Intending passengers are advised to contact their airline for the latest flight information. Passengers travelling to the airport today are advised to allow extra time for their journey and to drive with extreme care.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMRHZGJLCNFMVOR2HUG34D2UZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"LFXGQP3NMZGURGFCCV4YGW2INE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736076727278},"id":"timestamp-58748","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HEEITDLVKZCWZNKFSL5QPNQCQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107130},"content":"From Southern Correspondent Barry Roche:","type":"text"},{"_id":"RS3FLEKEO5ADDMWTC7C34Y2HAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107131},"content":"Gardaí in Kanturk are reporting heavy snow continuing to fall on the town and surrounding areas with reports of heavy snowfalls also in neighbouring towns and villages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQWTKCDOOZE37HFNMVFKIZCMNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107132},"content":"Newmarket, Ballydesmond, Taur, and Boherbue to the west of Kanturk and place east as far as Banteer were all reporting heavy snow falls with many roads impassable and treacherous.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGAOP2IJ6VBANF6ZKABHAXDB44","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107133},"content":"“Some people in 4 X 4 are managing to get through here in Kanturk but we would really urge people to stay at home – it’s still snowing here so it’s getting worse,” said a Garda spokesman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMIUATUPWNFSNNRNRE3G226TZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107134},"content":"Cork County Council were deploying snowploughs in Rockchapel, west of Newmarket and in Dromina near Charleville in a bid to try to keep roads open amid the continuing snowfalls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOVVR7Z2RJDDNAVTZFY3TC4HBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736079107135},"content":"Meanwhile ESB Networks are reporting thousands of people being without power as the snowstorm swept through the country – moving in a north easterly direction from Kerry to 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Staying off the road network unless absolutely essential and/or using safer modes of travel not only reduces your risk and the strain on emergency services but also helps keep roads clear for essential travel.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQBYD6UO2NHQPLBJEDPYM5MVXM","additional_properties":{"_id":"QFD23H44OJFO3EEF7ORE2OIC4A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1736086078995},"id":"timestamp-84217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PFHCDWNRRNAWHP5OFHIM7TT7BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736087744867},"content":"Sorcha Pollak reports:","type":"text"},{"_id":"O76R64HSCJGK7CFB44RAR4VBKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736087744868},"content":"Some 134 people are currently sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin, according the latest data released by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE), while Focus Ireland says there is “widespread concern for the few hundred people” sleeping rough nationwide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKAL46ARTBD6HO5IB76QCFXP2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736087744869},"content":"The latest DRHE rough sleeping figure does not include recently-arrived international protection applicants (IPAs) who have not been offered State accommodation. 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The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, is also being kept informed of the situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYZYKUXWWJDH7LA4RUPINOLCZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736097157357},"content":"The National Emergency Co-ordination Group will meet again tomorrow morning, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ODXD5YCINJDXJB4CSXEDXTPV5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1736097157358},"content":"Mr Leonard said: “We are seeing very difficult travel conditions for much of the country today. Even where roads have been salted, people should slow down, drive with caution and allow extra time for their journey. 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footpaths are likely to become a significant and dangerous hazard in the days ahead as bitterly cold weather from the Arctic freezes slush and snow, according to Alan O’Reilly from Carlow Weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD47NSBYTJCFBJZWRV2AINAU7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099390608},"content":"The snow that fell in the south of the country overnight will spread further east as the day continues, he added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EOUNJWPH5EZNIQK5HWNMRTJ2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099390609},"content":"Mr O’Reilly said people have been contacting him on the X platform since Saturday night detailing snow falls of almost a metre in some cases – with people in Tipperary, Limerick and north Kerry telling him they have never seen snow at the levels recorded so far this weekend.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MF5IAVNTTZHBTOZUJWYIEG75EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736099390610},"content":"<a 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A truck had jackknifed near Farranfore and a number of vehicles had become stuck trying to negotiate the high ground around Knockaderry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVTU6LECBFDXPO4HQNFX7RKJMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736105525544},"content":"It will take some time to clear two lanes because of the number of vehicles involved, the council said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CR7MVVLOIREG3K7AKXYMPX3IPE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"F5EQIQDZYNBY7PUY3YKJUN2224","additional_properties":{"_id":1736105525546},"content":"Motorists in Kerry are asked not to travel and not to use the N22 for some hours at least and then only when absolutely necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3SSA5NXCBGAJAU5N342BXYABI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736105525547},"content":"The Brennan’s Glen area of the N22 closer to Killarney had also become problematic and extra graders and gritting was needed before vehicles could move. 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