To walk away would have been unforgivable and shameful given the scale of the crisis we all face,’ Eamon Ryan said.

The worst of the storm has passed but there is still a risk of fallen trees and travel disruption in some counties.

Woolery told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 that his favourite set of lovebirds was a man aged 91 and a woman aged 87. He recalled: “She had so much eye make-up on, she looked like a stolen ...