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Over 3,000 across the South-East still without power due to Storm Barra

Over 3,000 across the South-East still without power due to Storm Barra

Homes and businesses in all five counties of the South-East are still grappling without power this afternoon, as the clearup from Storm Barra continues.

3,300 customers across the region are waiting for their service to be reconnected, with over 2,500 in Wexford alone, which has seen supply of both electricity and water affected in the last 24 hours.

Elsewhere over 200 in Tullow and Kilmacthomas are still waiting for their power to be restored following the outages.

The ESB is reminding customers not to remove trees that have fallen lines on them, or to approach what may be still live electricity wires.

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Their crews are hoping to restore power to most of the 60 thousand homes and businesses across the country who've lost supply by the end of today.

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