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06th Dec 2015

This Irish journalist has become an internet hero for braving Storm Desmond with brilliant news report (Video)

Ben Kenyon

In case you haven’t taken a look outside your window recently, the weather is f**king horrendous.

Storm Desmond has been battering the British Isles, flooding homes and causing power outages to thousands of families.

Proof Mother Nature can be a merciless and cruel old harridan.

But equally cruel is the TV station which sent poor news reporter Teresa Mannion out right in the middle of it to do a piece to camera.

Lesser journalists would have capitulated under horrendous winds and driving rain and come crawling back to the studio sodden an defeated, but not the tenacious Teresa.

She stuck two fingers right up at the storm and gave a brilliant, hilarious and hyperbolic account of just how sh*t conditions were outside.

If there world is ever ending, get this reporter on the scene!

https://youtu.be/_iYATgB2Tng

The internet have found a new hero in the Irish RTE reporter…

https://twitter.com/seanbrody95/status/673302744707543040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/Jim_Sheridan/status/673218274021285889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/Clonrf/status/673202918460424193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Topics:

Ireland,Weather