This week's coffee panel chatting about Storm Austin, the Revolut outage, and the health benefits of tea

So look, we had storm Austin overnight.

Thankfully, nothing too major for us at risk of falling trees and localised flooding.

The issue is we've stormed Boola starting in the coming hours because there's a status yellow rain warning for Limerick from 4 a.m. overnight tonight until 3 o'clock tomorrow and a wind warning from Saturday at 1 p.m. until Sunday at 12 p.m., Warnings, warnings, warnings coming at us all the time, Michael.

What's your feeling on that? People tend to say, would they ever just leave us be? We always used to have storms down through the years.

OK,

well, I think the weather warning system is a good system.

However, I think really a yellow warning is no more than a wet and windy day, or at least that's been my experience of it.

OK.

And I was speaking to somebody recently who's a retailer here in the city.

And they are quite upset about it because at this time of the year, running up to Christmas, we can get a series of these yellow warnings.

And people turn to gravitate towards the shopping centres rather than coming to the inner city.

Okay, so

somewhere that's covered.

Indeed,

yeah.

So obviously because it's causing a downturn in their business, they're quite upset about that and that's very understandable because we would all like to see the city centre being rejuvenated and active and vibrant and so on.

So I think red warnings, of course, obviously orange and red, they're dangerous and it's good we get them.

But sometimes I wonder, is the yellow warning inland overused? I'm not sure.

Yeah.

I think it's important to say that, you know, Metair and the various authorities say they have these warnings.

This is purely about trying to protect people, Jean, in case something goes wrong.

Do you think there needs to be a balance there?

I think, yeah, definitely.

But I do think in my experience, I agree with the yellow warning, like I was driving home last night.

It was OK on the motorway.

So look, we had storm Austin overnight.

Thankfully, nothing too major for us at risk of falling trees and localised flooding.

The issue is we've stormed Boola starting in the coming hours because there's a status yellow rain warning for Limerick from 4 a.m. overnight tonight until 3 o'clock tomorrow and a wind warning from Saturday at 1 p.m. until Sunday at 12 p.m., Warnings, warnings, warnings coming at us all the time, Michael.

What's your feeling on that? People tend to say, would they ever just leave us be? We always used to have storms down through the years.

OK,

well, I think the weather warning system is a good system.

However, I think really a yellow warning is no more than a wet and windy day, or at least that's been my experience of it.

OK.

And I was speaking to somebody recently who's a retailer here in the city.

And they are quite upset about it because at this time of the year, running up to Christmas, we can get a series of these yellow warnings.

And people turn to gravitate towards the shopping centres rather than coming to the inner city.

Okay, so

somewhere that's covered.

Indeed,

yeah.

So obviously because it's causing a downturn in their business, they're quite upset about that and that's very understandable because we would all like to see the city centre being rejuvenated and active and vibrant and so on.

So I think red warnings, of course, obviously orange and red, they're dangerous and it's good we get them.

But sometimes I wonder, is the yellow warning inland overused? I'm not sure.

Yeah.

I think it's important to say that, you know, Metair and the various authorities say they have these warnings.

This is purely about trying to protect people, Jean, in case something goes wrong.

Do you think there needs to be a balance there?

I think, yeah, definitely.

But I do think in my experience, I agree with the yellow warning, like I was driving home last night.

It was OK on the motorway.