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Irish people watched a lot more porn than usual while kept indoors by Storm Gertrude

Cork in particular saw a spike in traffic.

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OH, THE WEATHER outside is frightful…

Last week, Pornhub released data showing that traffic to the site increased by as much as 25% in some cities during Storm Jonas in the United States.

And as Storm Gertrude battered parts of the country over the weekend, Pornhub decided to see if the bad weather would lead to Irish users consuming more porn.

According to Pornhub, traffic was up in Ireland by 8.6% when compared to normal levels.

And it seems nobody in Cork made any unnecessary journeys during the bad weather with the county experiencing the biggest traffic increase in the country (10.1%, to be exact).

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Dublin and Galway experienced traffic increases of 8.6% and 9.3%, respectively.

Dirtbirds. All of yiz.

Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute O Swetenham
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:01 PM

    Kinda disappointed Cork beat us. Although they’ve been beating themselves too from the looks of things.

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    Mute Mark Byrne
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 9:59 PM

    When she’s coming she’s wet and windy, when she’s going she takes half the house with her!

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    Mute Thomas Hannigan
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:30 PM

    When she’s coming she takes your brain,when she’s going she takes the house and anything else she can get her hands on…..

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    Mute C Mc Gyver
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 9:53 PM

    Gertrude, a real turn you on name!

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    Mute Daffy the Bear
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:35 PM

    I’d say I watched a lot of porn during the storm; probably no more than usual though..

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    Mute Tom the Bomb
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:14 PM

    Does Pornhub pay for these articles? There’s one every month about Pornhub.

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    Mute Symbolism
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 9:56 PM

    Seems people didn’t bother much with the TV. They had it off every night.

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    Mute Josephine Sweeney
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:03 PM

    NSA are busy watching us all, ………No strings attached

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    Mute Caroline Mantl
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 6:43 AM

    I’m ytnfyjll

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    Mute Proinsias Ó Foghlú
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:33 PM

    So that’s why xhamster and red tube were slow at the weekend.

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    Mute Seamus McSpud
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 1:54 AM

    Can’t beat xvideo. Czech streets and public agent… Quality

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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:21 PM

    Holy Ireland

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    Mute Hypernova
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 9:59 PM

    So it was more that Gertrude who was wet and blowing.

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    Mute David Thomas
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:54 PM

    Not a surprise. Try and get someone to come around and Netflix and chill in that weather

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    Mute Gene Parmesan
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:05 PM

    What is the link to David Tennant?

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    Mute David Thomas
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:38 PM

    He was got caught in in a (golden) shower from gertrude

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:14 PM

    Next week it will be ip addresses lol.

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    Mute john truman
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 12:24 AM

    Henry came just after Gertrude

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    Mute Josephine Sweeney
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 9:57 PM

    Gertrude is real rude porn

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    Mute Maggie
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:49 PM

    Weird articles these days

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    Mute Eddie Byrne
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:28 PM

    A lot of blowing ok

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    Mute The Pope
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 1:56 AM

    Who cares and who wants or needs to know?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:00 PM

    As the excuse is, it is safer than sex these days…

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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:20 PM

    You’ll go blind doing it too much though

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    Mute Seamus McSpud
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 1:55 AM

    I wouldn’t have that problem if I could get my hands on you love

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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:41 PM

    With the better night life in Dublin, I’d say a lot of shams didn’t bother their bollocks.

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    Feb 2nd 2016, 11:18 PM

    Just another day

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    Feb 2nd 2016, 10:32 PM

    Jesus if I had to know it was an ogry I would have took the Vaseline and joined in

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