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Dáil Éireann ( / dɔɪl ˈɛərən / ⓘ doyl AIR-ən, [4] Irish: [ˌd̪ˠaːlʲ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; lit. 'Assembly of Ireland') is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the president of Ireland and a senate called Seanad Éireann. [5] It consists of 160 members, each known as a ...
About. Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station was established in 1987, and is still in operation. [3] The current station manager is Mr Gerry Spain, who has held this position for the last 20 years. [4] The station PI/Contact is Professor Simon O’Doherty, who runs trace gas measurement at the University of Bristol, and the station CO-PI is ...
Gerald Fleming. Gerald Fleming (born 20 November 1957) is an Irish former meteorologist and weather presenter. He joined Met Éireann in 1980 and worked as co-ordinator of the RTÉ Television weather team. He served as Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann until his retirement in December 2017. He is now involved with the World Bank and travels ...
21 January 1919 – 10 May 1921. The First Dáil ( Irish: An Chéad Dáil) was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919 to 1921. It was the first meeting of the unicameral parliament of the revolutionary Irish Republic. In the December 1918 election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Irish republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide ...
For a windstorm to be named, the United Kingdom's Met Office, Ireland's Met Eireann, or the Netherlands' Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) have to issue an amber weather warning, preferably for wind, but a storm can also be named for amber warnings of rain and snow (e.g. Storm Arwen in 2021).
January. 4 January – Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963. 5 January – a bomb alert on Dorset Street in Dublin is caused when officials at a Slovakian airport plant explosives on an innocent civilian and allow him to leave the country on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230 in a security test gone wrong.
Malin Head. Malin Head ( Irish: Cionn Mhálanna) [1] is the most northerly point of mainland Ireland, located in the townland of Ardmalin [2] on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal. The head's northernmost point is called Dunalderagh at latitude 55.38ºN. [3] It is about 16 kilometres (10 mi) north of the village of Malin.
Fergus O'Rourke. Dr Fergus J. O'Rourke, K.M., M.R.I.A. (1923–2010) was an Irish scientist whose publications included contributions to myrmecology and medical entomology. Educated at Belvedere College, and subsequently at University College Dublin, he graduated from University College Dublin both as a medical doctor and with a Masters in ...