COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, May 13, 2024
QUESTION NO.9
QUESTION: Councillor L. Hagin Meade
To ask the Chief Executive in tabular form, for the number of days monthly, grass sports pitches in SDCC parks were unplayable to compare the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.
REPLY:
Data available from Met Eireann shows that both 2024 to date and 2023 have been extremely wet periods when compared to long-term average (LTA) rainfall in Ireland. Taking data from the nearest weather station at Baldonnell the average annual rainfall is 754mm. Rainfall in 2023 at this location was recorded at 870mm (15% above the LTA) and in the 12 month period from May '23 to April '24 the recorded rainfall was 907mm (20% above the LTA). The months of February, March and April of this year have been particularly wet with average rainfall being exceeded by 48% over those 3 months and this followed an extremely wet second half of 2023 where average rainfall was exceeded by 33%. This left ground super-saturated and unable to carry heavy grass cutting machinery. Every effort has been made to address this situation in recent weeks when weather improved and this involved in many cases cutting and lifting the grass, cutting the pitch again and then rolling the pitches to make them playable.
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2022 |
2023 |
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Week ending |
No. of pitches |
No. of pitches unplayable |
Week ending |
No. of pitches |
No. of pitches unplayable |
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04-Sep-22 |
172 |
0 |
03-Sep-23 |
172 |
0 |
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11-Sep-22 |
172 |
0 |
10-Sep-23 |
172 |
0 |
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18-Sep-22 |
172 |
0 |
17-Sep-23 |
172 |
166 |
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25-Sep-22 |
172 |
0 |
24-Sep-23 |
172 |
25 |
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02-Oct-22 |
172 |
0 |
01-Oct-23 |
172 |
30 |
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09-Oct-22 |
172 |
57 |
08-Oct-23 |
172 |
6 |
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16-Oct-22 |
172 |
0 |
15-Oct-23 |
172 |
166 |
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23-Oct-22 |
172 |
27 |
22-Oct-23 |
172 |
166 |
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30-Oct-22 |
172 |
97 |
29-Oct-23 |
172 |
107 |
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06-Nov-22 |
172 |
99 |
05-Nov-23 |
172 |
119 |
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13-Nov-22 |
172 |
9 |
12-Nov-23 |
172 |
67 |
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20-Nov-22 |
172 |
13 |
19-Nov-23 |
172 |
29 |
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27-Nov-22 |
172 |
62 |
26-Nov-23 |
172 |
47 |
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04-Dec-22 |
172 |
24 |
03-Dec-23 |
172 |
29 |
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11-Dec-22 |
172 |
Xmas closure |
10-Dec-23 |
172 |
43 |
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05-Feb-23 |
172 |
21 |
17-Dec-23 |
172 |
Xmas Closure |
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12-Feb-23 |
172 |
0 |
21-Jan-24 |
172 |
41 |
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19-Feb-23 |
172 |
2 |
28-Jan-24 |
172 |
41 |
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26-Feb-23 |
172 |
1 |
04-Feb-24 |
172 |
21 |
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05-Mar-23 |
172 |
1 |
11-Feb-24 |
172 |
172 |
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12-Mar-23 |
172 |
166 |
18-Feb-24 |
172 |
150 |
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19-Mar-23 |
172 |
166 |
25-Feb-24 |
172 |
74 |
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26-Mar-23 |
172 |
24 |
03-Mar-24 |
172 |
172 |
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02-Apr-23 |
172 |
28 |
10-Mar-24 |
172 |
21 |
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09-Apr-23 |
172 |
20 |
17-Mar-24 |
172 |
172 |
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16-Apr-23 |
172 |
0 |
24-Mar-24 |
172 |
64 |
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23-Apr-23 |
172 |
0 |
31-Mar-24 |
172 |
128 |
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30-Apr-23 |
172 |
0 |
07-Apr-24 |
172 |
90 |
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07-May-23 |
172 |
15 |
14-Apr-24 |
172 |
51 |
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14-May-23 |
172 |
1 |
21-Apr-24 |
172 |
36 |
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21-May-23 |
172 |
0 |
28-Apr-24 |
172 |
19 |
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28-May-23 |
172 |
0 |
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04-Jun-23 |
172 |
0 |
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11-Jun-23 |
172 |
0 |
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18-Jun-23 |
172 |
0 |
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25-Jun-23 |
172 |
0 |
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