Roy Keane, one of Ireland’s most famous sons, famously tried to live by the motto, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’. As Ireland still struggles to cope with the aftermath of Storm Eowyn, it has become abundantly clear that the Irish government failed to pay heed to Keane’s sage advice.
Storm Eowyn (named by the UK Met Office after a character in The Lord of the Rings, for some strange reason) was the fifth major weather event to batter Ireland’s west coast in the 2024/2025 storm season. It arrived shortly after Storm Darragh, the cyclone which swept across Ireland and the UK in the first week of last December. Darragh was destructive enough itself and left 325,000 homes, business and farms without power.
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