Last Tuesday, Met Éireann announced four weather warnings for the country as the newly named Storm Fionn approached. Dutton criticised the joint initiative between Met Éireann and the UK Met Office, taking to Twitter to say: "This is the problem with the storm naming system. "#StormFionn that has been named by @MetEireann shouldn’t have been named," Dutton added. "The main reason that I disagree with Met Eireann naming Storm Fionn is that there was no storm in the sense that many of us would consider a storm," he wrote. "I’m sure he didn’t imply any deep criticism of the Met Éireann meteorologists."

Source: Evening echo January 19, 2018 16:18 UTC