This bloody snow is causing inconvenience to the entire country. There’s nobody that hasn’t been effected.
Our thoughts are definitely with the front-line services – like hospital staff, gaurds, fire officers and prison officers that simply have to work. Without them we’d be in serious bother in weather like this.
Most businesses have closed as the status Red Weather warning is now in place – and others have offered people the opportunity to work from home.
One such business is Midlands 103 who managed to broadcast their usual morning show from the comfort of the producer’s bedroom no less.
Will Faulkner presents Midlands Today from 9am to 12noon every day – and this morning he did so from the comfort of his bed. He did have additional help from his cat and two children, Isabel (4) and William (2).
“Needs must,”said producer Sinead Hubble. “We decided yesterday that Will would have been able to get into the studio but getting home was the issue.
“So he brought home the outside broadcasting equipment with him. It was a little bit more difficult but we got it done. And we’re going to have to do the same again tomorrow, although without our usual Friday discussion as we won’t be able to have guests in.
“We’d never done anything like that before but we’re happy we got through it. The show went well and we had a good response to it.”
Among the guests interviewed on the show were Minister Charlie Flanagan, Inspector Maria Conway, Cathal Nolan from the Midlands Weather Channel and the Director of Services from Westmeath, Offaly and Laois, with Kieran Kehoe representing Laois.
Sinead herself lives in Tullamore and “trekked through the snow” to get to the studio and says she’ll be doing the same again tomorrow if possible.
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