Ah she was grand when she was reading off a script but a bit weak when she was being questioned. That said Morning Ireland were unremittingly fucking negative this morning, so bad in fact that I put on Newstalk. Could you not have foreseen this, why didn’t you do that. And we after surviving the worst storm in 56 years with only three deaths.
In fairness to Eoghan Murphy he stuck it to Rachel English. Yes he said he was happy with the efforts his department made, we did do enough. She was stumped.
TBF all the offices and institutions that closed yesterday took the correct decision, in the interest of public safety. It was well flagged as being the worst storm in 50 years, and all in all, the country came through in good shape. Credit where its due. Even RTÉs coverage is worthy of a mention.
Fucking roofs being taken clean off some schools. god knows what other damage might’ve been done to other schools but Paddy and Mary are still giving out yards. Would sicken your shit.
While the storm probably wasn’t as bad as predicted I think Met Eireann / Government and the valiant Sean Hogan made the correct call in issuing the national status red warning.
There doesn’t seem to have been the widespread destruction of Storm Darwin, but again is probably due to a number of factors. Mainly we were better prepared (ME basically missed Darwin) and the fact Darwin had already cleared a lot of dodgy structures and old trees.