Cavan amongst the counties worst impacted by ongoing outages

Following on from the effects of storms Isha and Jocelyn, 12,000 homes, farms and businesses remain without power this evening.

With a peak of over 235,000 customers without electricity on Monday morning, ESB Networks teams have also been restoring power to additional customers who lost power yesterday as a result of Storm Jocelyn.

The areas most affected are predominantly in counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Cavan and Longford. With significant progress made over the last 48 hours in the restoration effort, ESB Networks crews are working through faults on the low voltage network that have primarily affected single homes and small clusters of customers (see notes to editor on the restoration process below).

All available ESB Networks resources are deployed, including crews and partner contractors who have travelled from less impacted areas of the country to assist in the restoration effort. For instance, crews from Cork are now deployed in Donegal assisting local colleagues there.

Furthermore, over 50 skilled personnel from our UK counterparts in National Grid Electricity Distribution and UK Power Networks will arrive in Ireland this evening and be deployed in the worst impacted areas from tomorrow morning.

It is important that any impacted customers who use electrically powered medical devices contact their healthcare professional to make alternative arrangements if necessary.

We again apologise for the disruption to family and commercial life this causes, and thank customers across the country, especially those who will be without power again overnight, for their patience as our crews work to safely restore power.

Real-time status on power restoration is being updated regularly and is available on www.PowerCheck.ie and www.ESBNetworks.ie.