The main effects and impacts on Ireland of Storm Barra are essentially over lasting just over 24 hours in some areas.

The initial part of the storm that hit the southwest of the country had winds of up to 135 kilometres an hour.

Cathal Nolan, Founder, Ireland’s Weather Channel and Jennifer Horgan, secondary school teacher in Cork joined the Last Word to discuss.

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