No weather for wimps

Madam, - As a Dubliner living in exile in Cork, I have always resisted the notion that the national media are excessively Dublin…

Madam, - As a Dubliner living in exile in Cork, I have always resisted the notion that the national media are excessively Dublin-centred.

Madam, - As a Dubliner living in exile in Cork, I have always resisted the notion that the national media are excessively Dublin-centred.

However, the manner in which a spot of bad weather on the east coast has become one of the main national news stories has finally disabused me of this notion.

It also provokes this question. With all of the moaning we have had to listen to on the national airwaves about the weather, is it the case that Dublin is now populated by a shower of wimps? - Yours, etc.,

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CIARAN McCULLAGH, Woodbrook Road, Bishopstown, Cork.