{"id":164007,"date":"2025-11-05T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:55:10","slug":"cork-sisters-in-jamaica-describe-hurricane-melissa-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork sisters in Jamaica\u00a0describe Hurricane Melissa\u00a0devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Death toll is still climbing after category five hurricane &#8211; the strongest type &#8211;  hit the Caribbean at the end of October\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sisters Evelyn Harrington who lives in Jamaica, and her sister Gillian Quinlan who spends much of her time there in happier times before Melissa hit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1b878d91-5838-4a43-a041-47da9699f73f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sisters Evelyn Harrington who lives in Jamaica, and her sister Gillian Quinlan who spends much of her time there in happier times before Melissa hit<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two Irish sisters have described the peak moment of Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica as like \u201ca scene from an apocalypse movie\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gillian Quinlan, from Cork, travelled to the Caribbean island country in September to visit her older sister Evelyn Harrington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death toll is still climbing after category five hurricane &#8211; the strongest type &#8211; hit the Caribbean at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,443,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-164007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-weather","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115496493287873159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}