Gardaí expect crime to significantly decrease during the snowy and cold weather forecast over the coming days. “But with weather like this we can have what you might refer to as cases of ‘Christmas Day syndrome’,” said one source. Niall McGuinness, of CPL Fuels Ireland, said fuel demand was “quite unbelievable”, with merchants all over Ireland reporting to be sold out. A northside teenage boy was the only person to turn up to the snowball fight organised for 3pm on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin’s city centre. The event, dubbed as a “vicious snowball fight to the death”, had been organised on Facebook with about 4,000 claiming they were set to attend and a further 12,000 “interested”.

Source: The Irish Times February 28, 2018 20:26 UTC