For Maureen Flavin Sweeney, it was her weather report ... s plans or even make them more aware of rough weather ahead. A young woman delivered a forecast that helped guide the way for Europe ...

Spare a Thought for Weather Watcher Maureen Sweeney Who Made the Right Call for ... spare a thought for the young Irish woman who may have played the most important role of all in making the ...

Maureen Sweeney, the Irish woman whose weather report convinced the Allied Forces to wait 24 hours before launching the D-Day landings, has died aged 100. Maureen, who was 21 in June 1944 ...

Unknown to Flavin, who would later marry the lighthouse keeper and become Maureen Sweeney, her weather readings as ... headline called Sweeney the "Mayo Woman Who Changed Course of World War ...

“They could arrange everything, but they couldn’t prearrange the weather. … We eventually had the final say,” Maureen ... Ms. Sweeney was one of the many civilian women involved in nearly ...

A major turning point in World War II hinged on the weather observations of a 21-year-old woman. Maureen Flavin Sweeney wouldn't know the role her reports played in D-Day until a decade later.

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.