Roads riddled with black ice as Gardai advise against non essential travel.
Officials were warning people not to travel unless it was necessary Monday after snowfall overnight left many roads in the county and city in extremely dangerous condition.
Traffic was at a crawl in the city and county due to severely icy roads as people made their way to work Monday morning. The N21, the N69 Foynes Road and N20 Cork road are all said to be very icy and secondary roads are in even poorer condition.
Due to the adverse weather and road conditions, Bus Eireann says they are experiencing disruption and delays on Limerick city services and some inter-city services via Limerick. Expressway services from Tralee to Limerick and Cork are also currently cancelled.
Heavy snow was also falling again in West Limerick during the morning.
Can someone from the council explain to the tax paying motorists why the Limerick by-pass motorway was NOT treated this morning. It was like an ice rink. Everyone knew this weather was coming. The road should have been a priority for the gritters and salting. Yet nothing was done. In any other developed country that would be considered criminal neglect. In this country if a private company was so neglectful of it’s duties it would be criminal neglect. But because a Irish council just couldn’t be bothered then it seems that’s OK.