Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.
Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.
Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.
ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island.
A red wind warning has been issued for the whole of the Republic of Ireland, with Met Éireann warning of a possible "danger to life". The alert comes into effect at varying times from 02:00 on Friday and will end at varying times. Met Éireann has warned that "severe, damaging and destructive winds" are expected, with gusts of up to 130km/h.
Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,
The rare red weather warning will be in effect across Northern Ireland from 07:00 until 14:00 GMT on Friday.
Clean-up operations are anticipated to take days and possibly even weeks in some parts of Northern Ireland, with Storm Éowyn bringing gusts of over 90mph across some parts of the region.
A yellow weather warning for fog has been issued for parts of Northern Ireland. The Met Office said it is to last from 00:00 GMT on Wednesday until 11:00 and is active everywhere in Northern Ireland except for western parts of County Fermanagh and the north west, including Londonderry and Strabane.
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