An elderly woman is believed to be the first casualty of the St Patrick’s weekend snowstorm after she was fatally injured in an apparent slip and fall in a church car park. An elderly woman is believed to be the first casualty of the St Patrick’s weekend snowstorm after she was fatally injured in an apparent slip and fall in a church car park. She was named last night as Anne King (81), from Rock Road, Blackrock. The grandmother and mother-of-four was well-known locally as a music teacher who played the organ in the Blackrock church. It warned of bitterly cold overnight temperatures that would plummet to as low as -5C, with minimum temperatures of between -3C and -4C “widely expected” nationwide.

Source: Irish Independent March 20, 2018 07:30 UTC