Maureen Sweeney

2023 - 12 - 18

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Met Éireann pays tribute to Irish woman whose forecast saved 1944 ... (Irish Examiner)

On June 3, 1944 - her 21st birthday - Maureen Sweeney (née Flavin) was taking hourly weather readings at Blacksod lighthouse and coastguard station in Co Mayo, ...

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Maureen Sweeney, Irish postmistress who reported the 1944 storm ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

She did not know the data she sent from Europe's most westerly weather station went straight to the Allies – even though Ireland was neutral.

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D-Day: Irish woman whose forecast helped save Normandy invasion ... (BBC News)

At the age of 21 Maureen Sweeney forecast a storm over the Atlantic which led to the delay of D-Day.

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Funeral arrangements announced after death of D-day heroine ... (Mayo News)

The funeral arrangements have been announced for a woman in Mayo whose weather forecast changed the timing of the D-Day landings.

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They Don't Make 'Em Like World War II Hero Maureen Sweeney ... (Esquire.com)

On Saturday, the day that the Republican frontrunner quoted Hitler about poisoned blood in New Hampshire, Sweeney passed away.

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D-Day 'hero' Maureen Sweeney, 100, of Ireland dies, known for ... (Fox News)

World War II hero Maureen (Flavin) Sweeney, whose weather report helped ensure the success of the Allies' D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, died Sunday in ...

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Mayo Weather Forecaster Maureen Sweeney Dies Aged 100 (Afloat)

As The Irish Independent reports, Ms Sweeney was taking pressure and temperature readings at Blacksod lighthouse in north Mayo on June 3rd, 1944 when she ...

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Death of Mayo D-Day heroine Maureen Sweeney | Connaught ... (Connaught Telegraph)

Maureen earned global acclaim for her weather reports from north Mayo, which saw the Normandy landings of World War II postponed by 24 hours due to a storm.

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