A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Worryingly, when predicting the peak wind gusts across Ireland during the storm the new weather maps show sections of black along much of the west of the country - black signifies wind gusts in ...

Alarmingly, these charts predict peak wind gusts, with colours reaching black along the western regions of Ireland, indicating gusts that could surpass 118 kmph. Ireland is bracing for some ...