RTÉ’s newsroom loves a good storm. They have all their regional correspondents out, looking at empty streets or wind-blown beaches and trying, like Dickens’s Fat Boy, to make our flesh creep. The station was derided for its hysterical coverage of Storm Lorenzo, two years ago, when its reporters across the land spent 24 hours warning […]
Kilkenny can look forward to a much calmer few days after Storm Barra battered the country and left thousands of households without electricity. In its latest forecast, Met Éireann said it will be milder but damp over the weekend, with spells of wet and breezy conditions at times. However, Kilkenny and the south east will […]
Kilkenny was fortunate enough to escape the full brunt of Storm Barra, but the crazy weather did throw up some rather strange sights. This trampoline somehow managed to bounce its way down a section of the Castlecomer Road before becoming wedged up against an electricity pole. Bemused gardai and members of Kilkenny Fire Service arrived […]
The tail end of Storm Barra will continue to batter the country this morning, with severe winds and weather warnings in place for every county. A status yellow rainfall warning remains in place in Kilkenny and the rest of the country until this evening. However, Kilkenny and the south east escaped the worst of the […]
Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow wind warning for Kilkenny and the rest of the country as Storm Barra approaches. The storm is expected to bring very strong winds tomorrow and into Wednesday morning. However, the national forecaster said winds will be strongest in western coastal counties with severe or damaging gusts possible and […]