Risk of Low Level snow showers in Ulster and W/NW Connaught on Friday Morning/Night

Nice bit of snow, from Navan to Mountmellick, back in 2017, March 27th to be precise. As I recall from my commute.
Right behind an artic at Trim when it shimmied on the heavy fast falling snow, then quivered and BANg over it went onto its roof, the full length of it down into a field.
Lots of slagging and laughing before we departed Navan that evening on our commutes. I was driving a quite sporty GT with 235 low profiles. That lacked bite. But got home. Actually maybe it was the 26th and I took a snow day on the 27th. I think it was still blocking the fast lane on the M6 Kilbeggan to Kinnegad the following day again. Found out later that a woman had died in a freak crash in Navan that evening as that blizzard fell. And it was blizzard-like. It was ferocious and sudden.
Agree with the Op, about this potentially catching people by surprise. Even seasoned weather freaks. What many want, and what Nature instead serves up, are often at odds.

Should be a mix of hail, sleet and snow in these big showers that heading for clare/galway coast in the next 2 hours.

Had some sleet in East Galway early this morning, very heavy hail just passing over the city now.

Reports of hail on the motorway near Ennis car already crashed supposed to be like a skate rink

Sleet and hail mix in North Kildare. 2.3° and falling

Moderate snow in North Kildare.

Heavy hailstone shower in North Donegal.

The colder air was quite noticeable in Mayo this morning. Plenty of bright blue skies but some really well defined and impressive shower clouds coming in from the west that were nicely illuminated by the morning sun. A bit of a wintry dusting on Nephin and some of the other higher peaks. I could also see plenty of white glistening in the morning sunshine along the tops of the Sheaffry mountains way off in the distance.

If I can't have heat then this is my next favorite weather, deep blue skies interrupted by black high level convective showers, the cold is somewhat tempered during the sunny periods. Heat from the sun inside he house is unreal

The hills have a good covering of snow here now.

Light to moderate sleet/graupel near Roscrea 3.5’C


EDIT Now proper snow 2.7°C

temperature fell from 5c down to 2c and then back up to 5c before after that heavy hail shower that just passed through South Galway, more action out in the Atlantic, seems to be taking it's time to reach the coast