Council in Tipperary warn recovery work is likely to continue next week after Storm Éowyn
Tipperary County Council have issued an update today about recovery after the storm
Tipperary County Council’s Crisis Management Team and Severe Weather Activation Team met this morning to discuss the Storm Éowyn wind warning issued by Met Eireann.
While a yellow wind warning remained in place until 4pm this afternoon and a significant number of roads across the County (5 districts) are impassable and the majority of these routes will be impassable due to fallen trees.
A full list of known and verified road closures per district is available on the Council’s website.
The council have released the following statement today:
"Crews across the five municipal districts are in the process of assessing and clearing roads blocked with fallen trees and other debris. The council crew will prioritise works around any areas of danger to the public, acute social/medical need and clearing our road network.
"Road clearing will progress from National to Regional to Local routes in that priority and the recovery work is likely to continue into early next week.
"As Met Eireann has forecasted low temperatures for tonight our salting teams will mobilise this evening and a specific focus is therefore placed on clearing these salted routes during the remaining daylight hours. This is critical in order to allow these routes to be salted. Salting Routes Map Under no circumstances should anyone attempt to use chainsaws and approach fallen ESB lines.
"Members of the public can contact Tipperary County Council Customer Service Desk on 0818 06 5000/6000 or a dedicated Severe Weather contact Number: 0818 06 5000 on Friday 24th January from 09.00 to 22.00 and on Saturday 25th January from 09.00 to 13.00, after which calls will be transferred to the Council’s Out-of-hours contact number: 0818 06 5003
"Members of the public can also email [email protected] or report fallen trees/debris via our website report it."