Early start on Friday morning for road gritting crews

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Make sure to take care as roads are still slippy

Assume no road is ice-free

It's yet another early start for the hardy Donegal County Council road gritting crew on Friday morning as they look forward to a 5am start to their day.

They've had a tough week trying to cover as many of the icy roads as possible. Hopefully improving weather conditions will make a breakthrough and the ice will be a memory.

The Donegal gritting route index is as follows:

01: National Primary North

02: National Primary Central

03: National Primary South

04: Inishowen South

05: Inishowen East

06: Inishowen West

07: Milford South

08: Milford North

09: Cill Ulta East

10: Cill Ulta West

11: Na Rosa

12: Binswilly

13: Stranorlar North

14: Stranorlar East

15: Stranorlar West

16: Donegal West

17: Donegal North

18: Donegal South

19: Donegal National Secondary

BT: Buncrana Town

LT: Letterkenny Town

Check Donegal County Council's interactive map for gritting routes at:https://donegal.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6c6e14762485409cbf66df0c69cbd8f2

Met Éireann has forecast that any fog will be slow to clear across inland areas on Friday. Otherwise a dry and sunny day. Less cold than recent days with highest values of 4 to 7 degrees, in light south-east breezes.

As usual, assume that no road is ice-free.

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