‘Mini tornado’ destroys part of Kent station roof

A “miracle escape” was how shocked witnesses described the mini-tornado which caused the collapse of a large section of the roof in Cork train station.

The freak weather which ripped through the station moments after the Cork-Cobh train had left the platform at 3pm left a woman in her 20s injured.

Staff and onlookers at the station all spoke of the relief that no one had been killed in the incident, which scattered huge chunks of the roof several hundred metres across the station carpark.