REPORTS HAVE LEAKED this evening from top officials in the Irish National Weather Service regarding a meteor that is said to be on course for a collision with the south-eastern coast of Ireland.

The aforementioned leaked documents have been seen by TheJournal.ie.

We have it on good authority that our source has a relationship with both the Irish National Weather and the Department of Extraordinary Events (a little-known and usually dormant branch of the Department of An Taoiseach).

Requests for comment from both the Irish National Weather Service and the Department of Extraordinary Events were not answered at the time of this article’s publication.

We spoke to Tom H. Oax, general manager of Blunsink Observatory, who told us that “a meteor strike of this magnitude could potentially wreak apocalyptic levels of havoc, depending on where exactly it lands off the Irish coast”.

According to Meteor Watch Ireland, an affiliated group to Astronomy Ireland, meteors are “a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space”. While smaller then asteroids, they have the potential to cause localised damage if they don’t burn up in our atmosphere before landing.

The last significant meteor to hit Ireland was in 1897, just off the Galway coast. That meteor event was blamed on ongoing weather issues that year – seemingly 1897 had a similarly wet summer, followed by extensive meteorites visible in the sky, with some being large enough to make it all the way to impact.  Luckily, the incident occurred on water, so there was no significant damage to buildings or land.

We are not expected to be so lucky this time, with predictions uniformly mentioning potential damage to the coastal area.

Our advice:

• Stay indoors this evening
• Tell your mother you love her
•  And most importantly… 

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More on this story as we have it. A further update on this breaking story is expected from the Minister for Extraordinary Events tonight at midnight… Stay tuned.