Irish Examiner view: And the North wind shall blow

Storm Arwen

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The near 160km/h gales which have ravaged the north of England and torn along the Irish Sea are the opening blasts of what we must now learn to regard as storm season.

Arwen is a very Welsh name, although culturally appropriated by J.R.R. Tolkien for the Princess of the Elves in Lord of the Rings. Perhaps, next time, we will have an Irish name. Bertie, for example?