⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

Oscillating between wild winds and calmer winds here in Athenry. Very wet. Everything charged. Can see a massive crane on a building site not too far and gonna assume it's hardy to withstand the predicted sustained winds!

Stay safe everyone.. not sure I'm gonna sleep..

Where?

Southeasterly wind presently. Not too strong but I can certainly hear it gusting. It's when the wind starts to turn in maybe two hours, then all chaos brwaks loose. I hope it doesn't. I'll be glad when it's over with minimal damage or hurt.

gradually increasing here Glencar co Kerry, as bad of a storm we had in a while, don’t want to think about what is ahead tonight! Stay safe everyone

Lashing Rain and very windy at the minute in my area of meath, (close to rathkenny), i didnt expect it this bad so early

Lights flickering Kinsale. Hot water bottles stat

picking up here now hope we don’t get any damage.

Craughwell east Galway 20kms inland.

Ryanair plane landing from Gran Canaria into cork just flew over head. Would hate to be on that

Two new tower cranes were erected on the crown square site in Mervue this week. I really hope they are still erect this time tomorrow and that the forecast is wrong for Galway. I'd rather listen to people moaning about how it should never have been a red warning for their few square acres than have to deal with some of the potential aftermath of this one.

Stay safe everyone or words to that effect.

looks as if it’s after going around for a second attempt now.

Just got a huge gust in Cork City there

Missed approach... the first of many around the country over the next 24 hours.

Was the "mongrel" comment not a tongue-in-cheek reference to all the talk of cavapoos and cavichons and whatnot? All of which are - sorry - essentially designer mongrels. Anyway, my dog is under here:

For anyone with dopey neighbours who left bins etc. out, I'd be putting a very pointed message into the neighbourhood WhatsApp (if there is one, obvs) asking people to please make sure they've secured everything, particularly [insert specific item neighbour in question has left outside]...