Maureen Flavin Sweeney's death reported on RTÉ News (18th December 2023)

RTÉ News reports on the death of Maureen Flavin Sweeney, the Irish postmistress whose weather forecast changed the timing of the D-Day landings in 1944.
Born on 3 June 1923 in County Kerry, Flavin Sweeney was 21 years old when she forecast an impending storm from the remote Blacksod Lighthouse in County Mayo, which played a key role during World War II supplying Britain and the US with weather reports. At 1pm on 3 June 1944 (her 21st birthday), Flavin Sweeney was first to forecast a severe Atlantic storm, which led to a change of plan by the Allied Forces and D-Day was postponed to 6 June. Her readings unwittingly gave the Allies a two-day warning of stormy conditions in western Europe, forcing General Dwight D Eisenhower to delay his planned invasion of Normandy. In 2021, at the age of 98, Flavin Sweeney was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for the role she played in changing the course of the conflict.
Flavin Sweeney celebrated her 100th birthday on 3 June 2023, and passed away on 17 December of that same year at a nursing home in Belmullet, County Mayo. At the time of her death, Flavin Sweeney was one of only a few famous people born before Queen Elizabeth II to have outlived the monarch.
R.I.P. Maureen Flavin Sweeney (1923-2023)