As the clean-up from Eowyn continued, Ireland's ESB Networks said it had restored power to 366,000 homes, farms and businesses by Saturday evening but that 402,000 still had no electricity. In Northern Ireland, approximately 140,000 homes remained without power by late afternoon, said electricity provider, NIE Networks.

Storm Eowyn has broken Ireland's wind speed record, with Met Eireann recording an average wind speed of nearly 135km/h recorded at Mace Head in County Galway early this morning. H