Hopefully, your correspondent (Irish Examiner, Letters, March 28) Diarmuid P Ó Luasa’s subtle but magnificent irony will not be lost on Ms Ruth Dudley Edwards.

No longer a hurricane, Irene spent the last of its fury and sloshed its way into Canada early today, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s east coast.