Flights cancelled and windows smashed in gales

Pedestrians escaped injury after gales flung a chair into a café window, sending shards of broken glass flying through the air.

The incident occurred on Cork’s Lapp’s Quay yesterday afternoon as damaging gusts of up to 130km/h lashed the south of the country.

It is understood the gales blew a chair into glass-topped hoarding outside the Boardwalk Bar and Grill, smashing the glass.