Icy Roads and footpaths all over Ireland?

Oh come on, you've got to feel sorry for the councils.

The money they get from parking fines, clamping and council tax barely covers their huge salaries and non contributory, safe as houses, pensions. They got to pay that first, once they've done that there's not much left for anything else.

The main footpaths around me have been gritted but then I'm not one of the counties with grit shortages. However the less used paths are a nightmare. I started slipping earlier grabbed a pole and ended up doing a 360 spin around the pole and nearly slamming into wall. Now that I think about it it was kind of fun. I also live down a two mile cul de sac and can't actually get out most of the time because the road itself is an ice rink.

The simple answer to icy footpaths is salt. Just sprinkle some salt on it, and wait.

The road authorities should mix grit with salt, and this would go much further to keeping the roads safe. However, people then complain that their cars are devalued as the salt is a bit corrosive on paintwork - interesting that cars are more valuable than public health, isn't it?

Right now I'm having to deal with frozen water pipes, and am praying my pipes don't burst.

Unfortunately the councils probably won't be able to afford to pay for the grit "later". It is the governments fault, they cut the councils budget so they can't afford it, and the economy won't be getting much better in the next year or two.

But the roads and paths are shocking. I have spent most of my x-mas hols in home because you can't even walk or drive down the hill outside my house because it is covered in thick ice, except for a few days.

EDIT: Salt is sold out in most shops!

They don't seem to think that the paths need to be gritted as well, there are ,loads of people slipping and falling, not to mention that some roads are in a terrible state.

I happen to live on a road that slopes, so when you try to leave the house your taking your life into your hands!

Same here in North Wales = our cul-de-sac isn't safe to either walk or get car out. I've told Wrexham council who added us to gritting list (apparently) but frozen solid for the last 2 weeks. My son cannot go out as he drives a wheelchair and I cannot get the van out to take him out as road is one sheet of ice. I've osteoporosis and likely to fracture a bone if I slip so I'm stuck inside too.

truly the suitable tip is to tug away in as extreme a kit as a danger. it rather is the two important to be careful with the grab. i does no longer advise utilising the handbrake, because it ought to lock the rear wheels thoroughly and bring about spinning the automobile or a minimum of impression the automobile's stability heavily as quickly as on the flow.

No money for salt etc. The tax money etc is spent on meetings to discuss the road conditions.

Good rant... the UK/Ireland.... = joke!! why should these countries grind to a halt? my mate went to Sweden back home for 2 weeks for the hol/chrissy but the country was running normally... -10c and snowing when he left... only to arrive back at Stanstead to trains in disarray and i ended up picking him up from a station many miles away cause the train couldnt go any further.... UK=JOKE////