Picture: Incredible shot of the lightning in Cork last night

The weather has been pretty hairy this last while, with winds and storms and rain, and folk in Cork were treated to some thunder and lightning to boot last night.

By Adrian Collins

It looks like those folks over at MET Eireann were right when they told us to expect stormy conditions in the last few days, as it's been fairly awful to say the least. That said, you can get some pretty great pictures out of the recent bad weather, which is exactly how this shot came about.

Photographer Paul Gallagher was working hard last night while the rest of us were sitting inside with a cup of tea watching the football, and he was rewarded with this excellent picture of a bolt of lightning from the storm in Cork last night.

We're glad we weren't stuck outside in that anyway, it looks like something out of a storm chaser TV show.