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Maureen Sweeney's weather dispatch from the lighthouse was a crucial warning to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, convincing him to change the date of the D-Day invasion and potentially saving the Allies' war effort in Europe. She passed away at age 100 on Dec. 17 at a nursing home in County Kerry, Ireland, where she was born.
Maureen Sweeney, who died on December 17 aged 100, was a postmistress on the west coast of Ireland who supplied the weather reports of a storm in the Atlantic that persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to delay D-Day by 24 hours.
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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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In 2021 she was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for her role in the war