Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.

Tens of thousands of homes in Ireland lost power on Friday as winds of 183 kilometres per hour lashed the country's western coast. Météo France has warned that Storm Eowyn will cause heavy rainfall

A powerful storm has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and caused massive travel disruptions in the United Kingdom.

A rare “stay at home” warning has been issued for parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a severe storm lashes the region, bringing dangerous 100mph (160 kmh) winds and unleashing travel chaos.

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island.

DUBLIN: Ireland recorded its strongest-ever wind gusts on Friday as "destructive" Storm Eowyn barrelled in from the Atlantic, leaving hundreds

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m.p.h., with forecasters warning of a danger to life.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. are being urged to stay at home as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks.

Storm Eowyn barrelled in from the Atlantic yesterday causing havoc across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power,

Met Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's national meteorological service, said that the country had faced wind gusts of 114mph in County Galway– the highest recorded wind speeds ever recorded on the island.