An Irishwoman whose weather report from the west of Ireland led to the postponement of D-Day and the safe landings of Allied troops in Normandy has turned 100.
Maureen Sweeney, originally from Knockanure in Co Kerry, was working alongside Ted Sweeney in the observation station and post office in Blacksod, near Belmullet in Co Mayo, as a young woman in 1944.
One of her duties from Europe’s most westerly weather station included making hourly reports from the lighthouse - which were being sent to London.
