{"id":339059,"date":"2026-02-15T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339059\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:59:12","slug":"hse-worker-pleaded-with-met-eireann-to-change-weather-warning-to-red-so-they-could-still-get-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339059\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE worker pleaded with Met \u00c9ireann to change weather warning to red, so they could still get paid"},"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\">Soaked washing and \u2018bourgeois\u2019 pronunciation also among complaints to forecaster\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stormy conditions. Photo: Domnick Walsh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/edb8e86a-8054-4c95-b8c2-ae5ce43f74c0.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)\">Stormy conditions. Photo: Domnick Walsh<\/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)\">A HSE worker pleaded with Met \u00c9ireann to change a Status Orange weather warning to red, so they could still get paid despite not going to work.<\/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)\">Soaked washing on the clothesline and \u201cbourgeois\u201d pronunciation were also among the gripes submitted to Met \u00c9ireann last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soaked washing and \u2018bourgeois\u2019 pronunciation also among complaints to forecaster Stormy conditions. Photo: Domnick Walsh A HSE worker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[91080,9,10,52,18,13,14,6,60,19,17,11,12,15,16,5602,5,960,7,8],"class_list":["post-339059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bluesky","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-storm-eowyn","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116076187772882300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339059","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=339059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}