Opinion
Eithne Shortall: It’s embarrassing how long it took me to fully grasp what ‘no electricity’ means
This week I have been in the west of Ireland – enduring my first proper power cut. It was in its third day and counting when I filed this column.
Last weekend, I arrived in Mayo for a DIY writers’ retreat. I left the kids at home with their father, and the car, and took a train and bus to my parents’ holiday house in a semi-rural part of the county. On the Saturday, there were reports of an incoming storm.
On Sunday, there was a status red warning for Mayo and I had gotten messages from both my mother and a friend who lives ...
