Almost 100 without power since mid-morning in Newbridge

A total of 96 ESB customers are currently without electricity in The Meadows area of Newbridge due to planned maintenance.

The interruption began around 11am and is power is not expected to be restored until 6pm.

Earlier this week an outage knocked out electricity to business premises along Moorefield road such as TD Martin Heydon's office and Casey's Centra and adjoining fuel station.