{"id":668317,"date":"2026-10-29T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668317\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:16:12","slug":"wireless-radios-and-battery-lamps-in-high-demand-since-be-emergency-ready-booklets-sent-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668317\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless radios and battery lamps in high demand since &#8216;Be Emergency Ready&#8217; booklets sent out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERE HAS BEEN an uptick in the number of people buying wireless radios and battery-powered lamps after the government told the country to prepare for extreme events.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of the Be Emergency Ready campaign, which saw 2.2 million households receive booklets on how to prepare for power cuts, flooding and other unexpected events.<\/p>\n<p>Its checklist includes non-perishable food, two to three litres of drinking water per person each day, a torch, spare batteries, a radio, medicines and copies of important documents.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative followed a wider European push to improve emergency preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Shops on Dublin\u2019s Capel Street say they\u2019ve been selling more radios and battery-powered lights since the booklets were sent out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793232972_412_.jpeg\"  alt=\"IMG_2052\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            A wireless radio in a window display\n<\/p>\n<p>One shop worker at Lenehan\u2019s, a home improvement shop, said there\u2019s been a \u201cmassive\u201d increase in demand for these products in the last couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve added emergency radios to their window displays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was actually a lady that came in today looking for a wind-up radio,\u201d the worker told The Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne time when [the booklet] was first sent out, there was a man who came in with the actual letter, and we had to check through it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went around the whole shop finding everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793232972_695_.jpeg\"  alt=\"IMG_2054\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            An LED lamp\n<\/p>\n<p>An emergency solar radio will set you back between \u20ac40 and \u20ac60. Battery-powered lamps generally range from \u20ac10 to \u20ac20.<\/p>\n<p>The manager at Lenehan\u2019s said they\u2019re also selling a lot of these products online.<\/p>\n<p>One solar radio they sell has built-in a torch and power bank.<\/p>\n<p>At the Army Bargains Military Shop just off Capel Street, one worker said there was an uptick in customers buying battery-powered lights.<\/p>\n<p>He recommends them over solar-powered lights as there is no reliance on the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Portable gas stoves have also been in demand since the booklet on preparedness was circulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE HAS BEEN an uptick in the number of people buying wireless radios and battery-powered lamps after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[283089,72,615,153011,61,60,283090,4236,4674],"class_list":["post-668317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-be-emergency-ready","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-just-in-case","tag-public-safety","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668317","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=668317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}