For the second time in less than a week the North Campus of NUI Maynooth was plunged into darkness at around 5pm. We still don’t know what caused the last cut but it was apparently “an ESB fault”. I wonder what we’ll be told about this one. My money is on another “ESB fault”. This level of service is just not acceptable. All CS department servers including our public web page were down for a whole night. I couldn’t work on my PhD stuff and I couldn’t find an email address for a lecturer in Physics I needed to contact. MiNDS> was un-available again too and basically this is the second night I’ve been majorly inconvenienced in less than a week by the apparent incompetence of our national electricity supply board. This level of un-planned service disruption is un-acceptable and I believe the university need to at the very least threaten legal action against the ESB to impress upon them that this third-world level of service is just not on in 21^st century Ireland!