Earlier today we reported that the mild winter we’d all been enjoying was about to come to an abrupt stop, with a severe weather warning in place for large parts of the country.
Now, the evidence of those extreme conditions has begun rolling in.
It seems as though the second city is bearing the brunt of the damage so far, with these images of Kent Station in Cork spreading rapidly on social media.
Early reports suggest that emergency services have rushed to the scene after a part of the roof collapsed.
The Irish Times reports that roofing on the Cobh platform collapsed shortly after 3pm this afternoon and landed on an unoccupied passenger train. The paper further reports that three individuals were injured at the scene.
The storm currently sweeping the country has resulted in Met Éireann issuing a code red alert for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo, a code orange for Clare and Cavan, and a code yellow for the rest of the country.
WOW Kent station in Cork got some hammering. [taken by train driver moments ago]. #kent #Cork pic.twitter.com/BFhWgi54VV
— Eimear McCormack (@EimearMcCormack) December 18, 2013
Another image from Cork. #kent #Cork pic.twitter.com/RkoLYdVVAQ
— Eimear McCormack (@EimearMcCormack) December 18, 2013