Cavan and Monaghan moved to status red 'danger to life' warning

The Anglo-Celt office will be closed on Friday due to weather conditions.

Cavan and Monaghan are among the 22 counties under a status red wind and "danger to life" warning this Friday (January 24).

Storm Éowyn is expected to bring "gale to storm force" winds with "severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts" in excess of 130km/h.

The wind warning is valid from 6am on Friday until 12pm and also applies to counties Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Roscommon and Tipperary.

There is also a status red warning for Clare and Galway valid from 3am on Friday until 12pm, and in Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo from 4am until 12pm.

Meanwhile the red warning in Donegal is valid from 6am until 3pm on Friday.

Met Éireann have listed danger to life, extremely dangerous travelling conditions, unsafe working conditions, disruption and cancellations to transport, many fallen trees, significant and widespread power outages, impacts to communications networks, cancellation of events, structural damage, wave overtopping and coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas as impacts of the storm.

The status red warning was issued at 3:10pm today (Wednesday).

The Anglo-Celt office will be closed on Friday due to weather conditions.