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Storm Barbara winds so strong they blew a window off Facebook's HQ

The centre of the storm tracked very close to Ireland yesterday.

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Dec 24th 2016, 2:34 PM

Irish people watched a lot more porn than usual while kept indoors by Storm Gertrude

Cork in particular saw a spike in traffic.

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Feb 2nd 2016, 9:40 PM