Storm Éowyn, a tempest of remarkable ferocity, has swept across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, leaving a trail of disruption and prompting the issuance of unprecedented red weather warnings across both regions.
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It could take up to ten days to restore connection to the homes without power, says Northern Ireland Electricity.
Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.
An extra 52 engineers have arrived to help NIE teams in Northern Ireland and ESB teams in the Irish Republic. First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said ...
Schools were closed, and trains, ferries and hundreds of flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland ... you can,” Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said on BBC Radio ...
Ireland was hit with wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour, the strongest on record, as a winter storm battered the country & northern parts of UK
Northern Ireland is in “the eye of the storm ... stay safe and stay off the roads please.” First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have urged ...
About 283,000 customers are without power in Northern Ireland - and more than 700,000 in the Republic of Ireland Wind speed records have been broken in the Republic of Ireland with hurricane-force sustained winds of 85 mph (137 km/h) at Mace Head, County Galway
Northern Ireland Electricity says it could take up to 10 days for all customers have their electricity restored, as clean-up operations are anticipated to take days and possibly even weeks in some parts of Northern Ireland.
First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said extra engineers had been drafted in from Great Britain to help to restore power across Northern Ireland (Rebecca Black/PA)
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