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   Michael Rhodes to All   
   Maureen Sweeney, 100, Irish postmistress   
   20 Dec 23 07:53:33   
   
   From: mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   Maureen Sweeney, who has died aged 100, was a postmistress on the west coast   
   of Ireland who supplied the weather reports of a storm in the Atlantic that   
   persuaded Eisenhower to delay D-Day by 24 hours...   
      
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/18/maureen-sweene   
   -irish-post-d-day-overlord-eisenhower/   
      
   She did not know the data she sent from Europe’s most westerly weather   
   station went straight to the Allies – even though Ireland was neutral   
      
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