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14th October 2017
05:02pm BST
In just over 36 hours Hurricane Ophelia will hit Irish shores and with red weather warnings already in place for five counties we could be in for a battering.
The storm is currently a category 3 hurricane which is traveling East North East - which is incredibly rare and Ireland has been put on alert.
Unreal. Hurricane #Ophelia has reached MAJOR Cat 3 status just south of the Azores. Extremely rare. pic.twitter.com/7gm1VUTHfc
— Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) October 14, 2017
It is perched right on the coast exactly where the storm is expected to make landfall. Trump has spoken about trying to build a wall in the past to protect the dunes and the golf course but there was fierce opposition to his plans.
