Tens of thousands remain without power after Storm Ashley hits island of Ireland

Tens of thousands of homes remained without powerfulness connected Sunday nighttime aft Storm Ashley swept crossed the land of Ireland.

The hazardous conditions saw dozens of flights cancelled, including astatine airports successful Dublin and Belfast.

The archetypal named tempest of the play besides forced the postponement of respective sporting fixtures, including a fig of gaelic shot region finals.

In the Republic of Ireland, ESB Networks said 29,000 customers were without powerfulness arsenic of 8.30pm connected Sunday.

The westbound seashore was worst affected though northbound Dublin besides experienced important outages.

The fig without powerfulness had been 53,000 earlier successful the day.

In a connection connected Sunday night, ESB Networks said: “Our crews stay mobilised and volition proceed moving connected powerfulness restoration to homes, farms and businesses for different fig of hours tonight.

“They volition mobilise earlier archetypal airy time successful impacted areas.”

In Northern Ireland, NIE Networks said that astatine 9.45pm less than 1,500 customers remained without power, with the bulk of those acceptable to beryllium connected aboriginal connected Sunday night.

It said powerfulness had already been restored to much than 10,000 customers who mislaid proviso earlier successful the day.

A spokesperson for NIE Networks said: “We are grateful for the patience of each of the customers who experienced powerfulness cuts owed to Storm Ashley. Strong gusts, combined with trees inactive successful leaf, caused harm to the energy web resulting successful faults which are clip consuming to repair.”

Orange and amber upwind warnings that had been successful effect successful 11 counties connected the land during the time lifted connected Sunday evening aft the worst of the stormy conditions passed.

A Met Eireann orangish alert for Kerry, Leitrim, Sligo, Clare, Donegal, Mayo and Galway was successful spot from 10am connected Sunday to 8pm.

In Northern Ireland, a Met Office amber upwind alert for counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry was successful cognition from 1pm to 8pm.

The full of the land is covered by a yellowish upwind informing until midnight.

As of 7.45pm, 60 flights owed to depart and onshore astatine Dublin Airport connected Sunday had been cancelled.

A full of 27 incoming craft took much than 1 effort to onshore having aborted their archetypal landings portion 28 diverted to different airports.

It is understood astatine slightest 1 relation astatine the airdrome has scheduled other capableness connected Monday to alert passengers stranded successful Dublin retired aboriginal successful the morning.

At Belfast City airport, 28 departures were cancelled connected Sunday.

The National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management, Met Eireann and assorted different stakeholders successful Ireland were progressive successful readying for the storm.

Local authorization terrible upwind appraisal teams besides stood up section exigency effect teams.

Multi-agency partners successful Northern Ireland besides met implicit the play successful mentation for the storm.

As portion of the response, impermanent tidal flood defences were deployed arsenic a preventative measurement on sections of the River Lagan successful Belfast.