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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.
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
We're used to commemorating June 6, 1944, as D-Day, the day when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in France, helping to shift the path of World War II and defeat...
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In 2021 she was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for her role in the war
A Knockanure postmistress whose accurate weather forecast in 1944 delayed the D-Day landings – saving countless lives and changing the course of human history – has died aged 100.