Maureen Sweeney, the Irishwoman whose weather forecasts were instrumental in the planning of the D-Day landings during World War II, lives to be 100 years old. Originally from Knockanure in Co ...

Maureen (Flavin) Sweeney, a lighthouse worker in Ireland whose critical weather reports helped ensure the success of the epic D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II, died on Sunday at 100 ...

Unknown to Flavin, who would later marry the lighthouse keeper and become Maureen Sweeney, her weather readings as sub-postmistress in Blacksod went to a central office in Dublin and from there to ...

We eventually had the final say,” Maureen Flavin Sweeney, who died Dec. 17 at 100, later recalled. Analysis: D-Day would be nearly impossible to pull off today. Here's why. Ms. Sweeney was one ...

Maureen Sweeney's weather report helped sway Eisenhower's decision to delay D-Day As a young woman growing up in County Kerry, Maureen Flavin Sweeney dreamed of moving to the United States.

This image taken from family video in June 2015, shows Maureen Sweeney. Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod Point on the northwest coast of Ireland, where one of her duties was to record data ...

But neither of them shaped as many lives as directly as Maureen Flavin ... her grandson Fergus Sweeney said. She was 100. The events that led Ms. Flavin to her unforeseeable moment of global ...

As a young woman growing up in County Kerry, Maureen Flavin Sweeney dreamed of moving to the United States. Belmullet in County Mayo, on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, was as far west as she got.

Maureen Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod Point on the northwest coast of Ireland, where one of her duties was to record data that fed into weather forecasts for the British Isles.

Spare a Thought for Weather Watcher Maureen Sweeney Who Made the Right Call for D-Day VER-SUR MER, France (AP) — Along with the generals and the paratroopers, the pilots and the infantrymen ...