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.

Around a million homes, farms and businesses across the island of Ireland were left without power on Friday following record-breaking winds. In Northern Ireland 189,000 homes and businesses remain without power following Storm Eowyn, NIE Networks has said.