Of course, the weather warnings last night were a case of a boy crying ‘wolf.’ Perhaps tonight will bring serious problems for tomorrow morning, but for today the snow did not arrive in Co Meath. Instead, there was persistent Rain, not the soft rain, but instead it was the rain of the cold, penetrating, chilling sort that speaks of a prolonging of winter. It was the sort of rain that makes you slam the car door shut and run for the dryness of the building.

There is not a great …