Photo: Tom Reilly
When 21-year-old Maureen Flavin dispatched the hourly weather report from Blacksod post office to Dublin early on her birthday, June 3rd, 1944, she didn't know how important it was. The report that a major storm was about to hit the English Channel on June 5 -- the initial date for D-Day -- led US Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to postpone the landing by 24 hours, after his staff called her directly to double-check the forecast. Now 98, Maureen Flavin Sweeney received a special US House of Representatives award on the 77th anniversary of D-Day. Her son Vincent Sweeney, lighthouse keeper at Mayo's Blacksod Point, said she was proud and happy that she got it right.
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