While thousands have had power restored, the ESB has indicated that parts of Oldbawn, Co Dublin, and Tullow, Co Carlow may not have electricity for a few more hours.
HUNDREDS OF ESB customers have been left without power tonight after thunderstorms hit the south-east.
Earlier this evening, thousands had their power disrupted due to winds and lightning strikes and the ESB has been fixing faults around the country.While thousands have had power restored, the ESB has indicated that pockets of Oldbawn, Co Dublin, and Tullow, Co Carlow may not have electricity for a few more hours.
“The outages are predominantly weather related and in the south east of the country. So far, the scale of disruption has been relatively modest and in line with past experience of similar Yellow warnings. “Real time updates are available on www.powercheck.ie and our crews will continue to respond to outages as they arise this evening as quickly and safely as possible.”
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