'Actually it isn't too bad, and next thing BANG' - Storm Eunice brings tree down on Cobh house

Two people were getting ready to go to their home offices when the tree smashed into the house where one of them would have been

The tree that came down with a swift bang onto the front of Ellen O'Regan's house in Cobh. Photo: Kevin O'Regan

When you clock into work as a journalist the morning after a Red Storm warning, you expect you’re going to spend the day covering the aftermath, but you never expect it will be quite literally in your own backyard.

While the worst of Storm Eunice was supposed to have passed by 8am on Friday morning, at about 8.15am a mature tree came crashing down on our family home in Cobh, narrowly missing my parents who were both inside at the time.