The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2017 Ireland: Post-Tropical Storm Ophelia Lashes Island, Killing 3 ------------------------------------------------------------- In Ireland, at least three people are dead and hundreds of thousands of homes remain without electricity, after the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia swept across the island as a post-tropical storm. Ireland's prime minister called it the most powerful storm in over half a century. .