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Maureen Sweeney, who has died aged 100, was a postmistress on the west coast of Ireland who supplied the weather reports of a storm in the Atlantic that persuaded Eisenhower to delay D-Day by 24 hours.
On Saturday, the day that the Republican frontrunner quoted Hitler about poisoned blood in New Hampshire, Sweeney passed away.
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Travel to the top left corner of Co Mayo, past Céide Fields along the north coast, or Wild Nephin National Park from the south, and you’ll come to the town of Belmullet and the Mullet Peninsula.
On June 3, 1944, Irish Coast Guardsman and Blacksod lighthouse keeper Ted Sweeney delivered a weather forecast by telephone from Co Mayo’s most westerly point. The report convinced General Dwight D Eisenhower to delay the D-Day invasion, potentially averting a military disaster and changing the course of World War II.