Declan Lynch: Big storm was proof that ‘Idiot Wind’ of modern technology is blowing us all back to the Stone Age

Once, we were without electricity for about 10 days. I can’t quite recall which Beast from the East, which Big Wind or Big Freeze or Big Snow it was — perhaps the Big Snow of 2010. Maybe I just don’t want to recall it.

In our part of rural Wicklow, a small number of houses were off the grid longer than all the others because of the severity of some specific damage in the area..