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.

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

Storm Éowyn made landfall overnight, bring record-breaking winds, power outages and damage to structures across Ireland. Met Éireann issued a Red Weather Warning for the entire country which came into effect last night. In advance of the storm's arrival, some supermarket shelves were cleared of bread.