{"id":664797,"date":"2026-10-25T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664797\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:48:09","slug":"more-than-25800-customers-without-power-across-donegal-as-outages-continue-highland-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664797\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 25,800 customers without power across Donegal as outages continue &#8211; Highland Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 25,800 electricity customers remain without power across Donegal this morning following widespread outages overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Figures compiled from ESB Networks\u2019 PowerCheck listings for the Killybegs and Letterkenny reporting areas show 25,878 customers affected across 58 listed faults.<\/p>\n<p>The Milford area is among the worst affected, with five separate faults accounting for 7,226 customers without electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In Glenties, four outstanding faults are affecting 3,391 customers, while 3,166 customers remain without power in the Carndonagh area.<\/p>\n<p>There are also significant outages in Buncrana, where 2,008 customers are affected, and Creeslough, where four faults account for 1,809 customers.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, 1,107 customers are affected in the Donegal Town area, 1,086 in Bundoran and 1,085 in Gortlee.<\/p>\n<p>Further outages are reported in Derrybeg, Moville, Kilcar, Rossgeir, Dungloe, Stranorlar, Killybegs, Ballyshannon and Ballyraine.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller faults are also affecting customers in Gweedore, Cullion, Ballymacarry and Convoy.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some progress in restoring electricity supplies this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A major fault affecting 3,786 customers in Buncrana was restored at 7.06am.<\/p>\n<p>Four separate faults in the Glenties area, affecting a combined 5,541 customers, have also been marked as restored, with the latest restoration recorded at 8.25am.<\/p>\n<p>Those restored faults have been excluded from the outstanding outage figures.<\/p>\n<p>ESB Networks is currently indicating an estimated restoration time of 2pm today, Sunday, October 25th, for almost all outstanding faults.<\/p>\n<p>However, a fault affecting 13 customers in Convoy continues to display an estimated restoration time of 9.30pm yesterday, which has already passed.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration estimates remain subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 25,800 electricity customers remain without power across Donegal this morning following widespread outages overnight. Figures compiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-664797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664797","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=664797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}