An entrance to a housing estate in Castlebar, Co Mayo, is blocked by a fallen tree after Storm Eowyn. Picture: Enda O’Dowd
Storm Éowyn “was kind of Russian roulette along the west coast of Ireland”, said Fergus Sweeney, a photojournalist from Blacksod Bay in Co Mayo.
When he thinks back now, to a storm that caused unprecedented destruction in Ireland, he sees reasons to be thankful.
“It could have been worse, we dodged a bullet in some senses. Had the storm stayed in the southwest, we would have seen a lot more damage.”
Living in an exposed peninsula in Mayo, Sweeney said he was “used to the wind”, but he was in his “littl
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