Large number of homes in Tullamore left without power in early hours of morning

A total of 933 customers were left without power in the early hours of this morning, Thursday January 25, in Tullamore. This was due to a power outage at Srah.

The power went at at around 1.20am and according to the ESB was restored at 4.45am.

Meanwhile there is an outage at Snugborough, in Offaly. The ESB power check website says power went at 4.20am and gave an estimated restore time of 8.45am. Up to the time of writing power had still not been restored.

The ESB apologised for the loss of supply. ''We are working to repair a fault affecting your premises and will restore power as quickly as possible,'' a message read.

Yesterday January 24 aproximately 12,000 customers remained without power nationwide following Storm Isha.

A statement from ESB Netrworks said all available resources had been deployed with additional crews due to arrive from the UK yesterday evening.