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The lighthouse D-Day reference sentence is not sourced, is misleading, needs further details. Look at https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/how-blacksod-lighthouse-changed-the-course-of-the-second-world-war-30319681.html Note: “Blacksod's importance was due to the fact that it was the first land-based observation station in Europe where weather readings could be professionally taken on the prevailing European Atlantic westerly weather systems.”

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article cited below states barometer reading was hourly from Post Office … went to Irish Republic’s weather bureau and then was passed on to Allies … (Irish Republic was neutral in WWII). See https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/us-honour-for-98-year-old-woman-whose-mayo-weather-report-changed-d-day-landing-1.4598678 Jon Petrie


Rannpháirtí anaithnid - I noticed you put my images into "frames" which allow the captions to be seen at the bottom. Personally, I don't like these and I much prefer them unframed with the caption appearing when the mouse is passed over the picture which is how I put them on. I don't want an argument or anything but in my opinion I'd prefer they were left the way I put them on originally. I've learnt now not to put them on too big, but white frames!!??!!.........? Please revert if you can agree. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Comhar (talkcontribs) 10:42, 2 June 2010

Looks like you are doing some great work on Mayo-related articles, Comhar, and the kite-boarding image is cool. As a (fellow?) Mayoman - thank you!
I don't really mind how the images are displayed so long as it conforms to the Manual of Style. The bad news is that captions are a must. All images, with rare exceptions, must have captions.
Typically also images are displayed in-line with text. Articles that consist mainly of images should be avoided. The <gallery> tag is intended to gather up loose images that are still appropriate to illustrate the subject. See here. --RA (talk) 12:01, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
BTW - I hope you don't feel like I'm being a hard-ass. It was just a MOS edit. I really don't mind how they are displayed so long as they fit with the MOS. --RA (talk) 12:04, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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