It’s fair to say the nation has a new hero after Teresa Mannion’s epic windswept news report went down a storm online.
The reporter went out on the frontline to bring us all the latest updates and advice regarding Storm Desmond, and quickly became an internet sensation as the news report did the rounds on Twitter.
She has now spoken out about the challenging broadcast and the phenomenal reaction.
Speaking to RTE TEN, she noted that the report was particularly tough because she and her crew were in the eye of the storm, battling “incessant rain and gale force winds” but that she was blown away by the “phenomenal response.”
She added that she was in a “crazy bubble on the prom being blown hither and thither, hoping to be heard over the winds.”
But she is taking it all in her stride, and said “it’s part and parcel of what we do.”
She also thanked her news crew saying she couldn’t have done it without them.
@rtenews #StormDesmond thanks for all the tweets. Team effort! pic.twitter.com/hvF32wWbCi
— TERESA MANNION (@MANNIOT) December 5, 2015
First there was the guy who fell on ice… Then there was #TeresaMannion ☔️❄️? #StormDesmond pic.twitter.com/h5YDjooFn2
— Her.ie (@Herdotie) December 5, 2015
Make up!! We have an emergency! #TeresaMannion
— Frank Fitzgibbon (@FrankSunTimes) December 5, 2015
Poor aul Teresa Mannion has been stuck on the Prom since teatime. Someone get that woman a hot toddy
— Will Leahy (@willleahy) December 5, 2015
Is Teresa Mannion reporting the weather or making a mean and moody pop video? pic.twitter.com/D0vzAJt5fU
— S (@TheShiftyShadow) December 5, 2015
