Cavan businesses closed by weekend power outage

Shoppers were turned away from stores due to power issues.

Four thousand customers were left without power across Cavan at the weekend, with businesses forced to close on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

ESB Networks has confirmed “a high voltage system fault” saw people across Killeshandra, Ballyconnell, Belturbet and Cavan town affected.

In all, around 4,000 customers were left without electricity for over an hour on Saturday afternoon.

Businesses across Cavan town were forced to turn away customers on one of the busiest days of the year due to a major power outage.

Shops and other businesses were left with no choice but to turn away customers as lights, tills and security systems could not operate.

The fault, on one of the last shopping days before Christmas, is expected to have impacted on many local businesses.

Local Gardaí were forced to post on social media that they were aware of the issue, with large numbers of house and business alarms going off across the county due to the lack of power.

Gardaí said they were working with ESB Networks to rectify the problem.

In a statement to The Anglo-Celt, the utility said its crews responded immediately “to isolate and repair the fault”.

It’s issued an apology to the people and businesses affected “for the obvious disruption to family and commercial life in the area”.