Thousands of people in Ireland are experiencing power outages due to a severe cold snap. Many are seeking refuge in hotels like Limerick's Longcourt House Hotel, where families are sharing their stories of hardship and resilience.
Ireland weather: Status orange ice warning for 15 counties but temperatures set to climb in coming daysPsychiatric nurse Deirdre Fitzgerald from Monagea, who reached the hotel with her three young sons, Darragh , Jack , and Killian , said: “The power went early last Sunday morning, it came back yesterday, and it went down again this morning, so it has been a disaster.
“It has been horrific so we came here to the hotel just to get out, to get a bite to eat, and a change of scenery,” she told The Irish Times. Despite their ordeal, Mr Buckley joked he had “reacquainted” himself with his garden shovel to clear snow and ice from outside their home. ESB officials Robert Grimes and Karol Fitzgerald were busy at the hotel, manning the ESB’s digital Network Management System “nerve centre”, offering the weary visitors live satellite map updates on the locations of ESB crews and when power would be restored to homes.
Armed with only a shovel, Sean Copse , braved the bitter temperatures in a T-shirt, working up a sweat clearing mounds of snow from the entrance to his frozen home located a few kilometres away.
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