And the aghada power station down the road. Halloween it was gone from 3pm until 11pm they had huge problems with all of east cork
Days were doing pen and paper a good few times (the local shop that got automated tills)
Add to that the poison water that you couldnāt drink for a few years and the no phone coverage and you may as well be in central america
Those automated tills are a pure prick of a thing
3 miles North of Killeagh, Castlemartyr, Youghal etc is pure bandit country. Drove through Ballynoe once; I donāt think Iāve ever seen a more pointless place.
Mount Uniack and all back to Dungourney. No mans land
East cork is a hard place
When the power does get cut (and it will) I can see lads likes of @Bandage fumbling around in the middle of the night looking for the childs christening candle to try and calm the house.
Putting on the flashlight on the phone and sending the missus down the stairs before them
Some lad was telling me earlier this week about these Uninterruptible Power Supply Devices. Theyāre essentially a massive battery backup system that you can run about 8-10 electrical items off for the guts of 4-6 hours in the space of a power cut.
You can have them plugged in already and they act as a surge protector and then click into action if power goes as theyāre already fully charged. Typical Irish household would get by on one costing 200 quid. Surprised Iāve not heard more about them with all the sensationalism about the generators
What you want is a big fuck off diesel ginny that lets the neighbours know youāre watching the match while theyāre telling the kids this is āan adventureā
Aye, nothing more Irish than being stuck outside in the freezing rain trying to start it up before realising you never topped the diesel after the last time and the petrol station down the road closed 5 mins earlier
Storm Ophelia didnāt cause an outage at all?
Iām meticulous. I moved house twice in one day, effortlessy, during the pandemic
Iād forgotten about that you mad man 
Telly, fridge, cooker, wifi. Shur what more would you need
Can run about 8-10 devices for around 4-6 hours is utterly dubious stuff.
About and aroundā¦ the staple words of the used car salesman
Exactly. Fridge, Freezer, Wifi and a few charged up phone and tablets and youāre away in a hack
Itās like the examples above. Phone chargers, Fridges, Freezers etc. You wouldnāt be constantly boiling the kettle, tumble drying the clothes or using the hair dryer for 8 hours. For the essentials that are already a low enough drain
There was something magical when you were young and the lights went out.
Not just as easy as saying businesses either though, different businesses will have different power requirements overnight.
As long as the data centres donāt lose their power we should be ok.
DĆ”ithĆ OāSĆ© used to always charge his phone in the Mary I library when he was a student there as he thought it would save him a few quid 
630 euro for 600 dollars in the post office 