O'Boyle

“Technology pervades everyday life and these tariffs are attacks on consumer electronics,” said Todd O’Boyle, vice president of technology policy at the Chamber of Progress, a trade group.

In his 40 years working among the trees, John Joe O'Boyle, the chief executive of Forest Service Northern Ireland, says he has never seen anything like it.

"The storm created large scale devastation right across the forest estate, one of the biggest damages I have seen. It's devastating," Mr O'Boyle said.

According to Mr O'Boyle – no, because the usual tree felling schedule has been moved to accommodate the emergency felling brought forward by the storm.

As John Joe O'Boyle surveys the damage at Gosford Forest in County Armagh, he says that there could be a positive side to the wide scale damage.