Telephone Service Dislocated

Telephone Service Dislocated

13 Mar 1937

The whole force of the Post Office engineering staff was called out for the task of repairing damage to telephone poles and ‘wires in Dublin and all over the county after Thursday’s _^ storm, the men working in many cases all through the night in snow and rain. It is expected that if the weather continues to improve a reasonably normal trunk service in the Free State will be restored by Monday.

Of the three telephone lines to Liverpool only one remains. The two lines to London have broken down. Calls to London have had to be put through via Liverpool. There was a serious break-down in the Six County area, only one line being free to Belfast.

Dublin Fire Brigade was called out yesterday to pump water from houses in low-lying parts where flooding had occurred, in Rutland Avenue, Larklield Road, Kimmage, Harold’s Cross Green, Mount Argus, and Ashtown.
Water entered cottages in Rutland Avenue to a depth of three feet, when the small River Poddle, where it passes underground at Dolphin’s Barn, became choked up about midnight on Thursday. Residents remained up all night endeavouring to make passages for the water to escape. A workman had to climb through a window to get to his work yesterday morning.

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