{"id":349214,"date":"2026-03-16T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:46:13","slug":"thousands-without-power-last-night-after-south-donegal-lightning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349214\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands without power last night after south Donegal lightning strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand customers were without power last night following a lightning strike in south Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 2,000 homes and businesses were affected following outages in the Donegal Town and Ballyshannon areas at around 8:30pm. However, most areas had their power restored by midnight. <\/p>\n<p>There were reports of severe thunder and lightning at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 33 customers are without power in Ballyshannon this morning following a fault. However, ESB Networks expects the connection to be restored by 10:45am.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands without power last night after south Donegal lightning strike was last modified:  March 16th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several thousand customers were without power last night following a lightning strike in south Donegal. Almost 2,000 homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159034,11243,116120,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-349214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-lightning-strikes","tag-donegal-news","tag-donegal-weather","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349214","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=349214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}