{"id":218330,"date":"2025-12-30T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/218330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:19:09","slug":"snow-ireland-as-big-freeze-looms-should-all-schools-close-in-orange-alerts-have-your-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/218330\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Ireland &#8211; As big freeze looms should all schools close in Orange alerts? Have your say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met Eireann have issued snow updates &#8211; but does the nation grind to a halt too easily?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Winter-weather-Dec-6th.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The school run can be challenging enough without snow (Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ireland is braced for a big freeze &#8211; with temperatures set to drop and weather warnings incoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The nation is now well familiar with the colour coded weather warnings, yellow, orange and red. Storms like Eowyn turned the maps entirely red and were history-making. Yellow warnings are more common &#8211; and forgettable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But what about Orange warnings &#8211; the middle ground between the unpleasant and the extreme? Should we be more cautions or are we cautious enough?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/weather\/ireland-weather-met-eireann-issues-36472017\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Met Eireann issues new snow update<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The school run can be stressful at the best of times. The roads are busy. The mornings and evenings dark. The roads busy. So the question is: Should all schools close their doors ever time there&#8217;s an Orange warning?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Have your say in our poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Sign up here.Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Met Eireann have issued snow updates &#8211; but does the nation grind to a halt too easily?The school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,836,40720],"class_list":["post-218330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}