Traffic on Alfie Byrne road this morning?

TheBlock

Does anyone know whay there was a larger than usual delay getting across the Alfie Byrne this morning? Took me 1 hour to get from the dollymount house to The Yacht. I think there might have been an accident at the entrance to the east piont does anyone know anything about it?

Bluetonic

Richmond Road was close due to a fire and I'm sure this had a knock on effect all around the place.

Dub13

There does not have to be a reason why traffic turns bad in this city anymore,sometimes it can just be heavy volume.

sunnyjim

There was a fire on the Richmond Road? What went up?

seamus

Dub13 wrote:

There does not have to be a reason why traffic turns bad in this city anymore,sometimes it can just be heavy volume.

There's *always* a reason. But this can be anything from "fire on the northside" to "little old lady took five minutes to make a right turn, 45 minutes ago, holding up everything in a four mile radius".

Bluetonic

sunnyjim wrote:

There was a fire on the Richmond Road? What went up?

Dublin house fire claims one life
16/11/2006 - 11:50:29

One person has died following a massive house fire in the Drumcondra area of north Dublin this morning.

A number of neighbouring homes were evacuated at the height of the blaze, which broke out around 5am in the Richmond Road/Gracepark Road area.

The area was closed to traffic for some time and remains sealed off pending technical examinations.

A post mortem will be carried out on the remains of the victim.

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sunnyjim

Thank you. It was a homeless man living in a boarded up house. It was up the road from where I work on Richmond Rd.