Taoiseach Enda Kenny today told delegates in the Dail that not even Michael Gallagher Ireland’s most famous amateur weatherman could have predicted the severe flooding which has affected several parts of the country.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said not even our very own Michael Gallagher could have predicted the severe flooding nationwide.
The postman from Glenfin has earned a reputation over the years for predicting weather by using signs from nature.
However his prediction this year that we would have a ‘White Christmas’ failed to materialize.
While he was also on the receiving end of a scathing attack by RTE meteorologist Evelyn Cusack in November when he made the bold claim that we would have a ‘White Christmas’.
The Taoiseach was responding to fierce criticism from Gerry Adams over their failure to implement strategic planning to protect cities and town most venerable to the threat of severe flooding.
Kenny responded, “Not even the postman in Donegal could have predicted that the tides would be 20 feet higher than normal at the mouth of the Corrib, with due respect to his experience and his analysis of what the weather patterns might be.