Well-known pub evacuated as storm unleashes damage on roadway outside

The customers of a well-known pub/restaurant were hoping for a lock-in as the storm raged, but as its owner surveyed the massive damage being inflicted outside his premises there was only one option: evacuation.

Pearse O’Sullivan, who runs the Bulman at Summercove, Kinsale, said the storm started to unleash its power at around 7.30pm on Tuesday and it raged for two hours.

“It got so hairy we had to block the road outside because we knew it was going to collapse. People were still trying to drive down it and I knew somebody would end up in the tide.”