{"id":184404,"date":"2025-12-10T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:23:06","slug":"storm-bram-repair-work-to-commence-as-8000-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184404\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Bram repair work to commence as 8,000 without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 8,000 homes, farms and businesses across the country remain without power after their supplies were cut off during Storm Bram.<\/p>\n<p>ESB Networks said that repair crews will recommence work at first light this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it said it is assessing the damage to the electricity network and will provide updates on estimated restoration times as soon as crews have evaluated impacted areas.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the operators of Dublin Airport said that the storm had a significant impact on the airport&#8217;s operations, with more than 100 flights cancelled by airlines yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Graeme McQueen said that while Dublin Airport is expected to be fully open today, there is potential for some disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann said that a full schedule of train services will operate on all routes today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flooding in Clontarf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00239a07-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nFlooding in Clontarf in north Dublin yesterday<\/p>\n<p>A number of ferry sailings to and from Ireland today have been rescheduled or delayed in the aftermath of Storm Bram.<\/p>\n<p>Irish Ferries said passengers are advised to contact their service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout yesterday, there were some incidents of flooding and fallen trees, particularly in the south of the country, where the storm first made landfall.<\/p>\n<p>54,000 homes and businesses were without power as Status Orange wind warnings were in effect nationwide, with winds reaching 113km\/h at Roches Point in Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Blustery showers and isolated thunderstorms are forecast for the north of the country today, with conditions otherwise mostly dry with sunny spells.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann has warned of a continuation of unsettled weather for the rest of the week and into next week due to what it calls a &#8220;mobile Atlantic flow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2025\/1209\/1547986-storm-bram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Storm Bram brings power cuts, flooding and travel chaos<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2025\/1209\/1547989-storm-bram-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As it happened: Storm Bram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 8,000 homes, farms and businesses across the country remain without power after their supplies were cut off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-184404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}