{"id":813466,"date":"2026-10-25T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:42:10","slug":"storm-boelo-brings-floods-travel-disruption-and-power-cuts-for-tens-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813466\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Boelo brings floods, travel disruption, and power cuts for tens of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of homes in Northern Ireland are without power after Storm Boelopublished at 11:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Holly Fleck<br \/>BBC News Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 41,000 homes, farms and businesses across the Republic of Ireland are without electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland Electricity said 7,000 customers have been affected, with the worst impacted areas including Springfield in County Fermanagh and Bushmills in County Antrim, where more than 1,000 homes near each village are without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s ESB Networks says properties in the north-west of the country are primarily affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As Met \u00c9ireann weather warnings remain in place, there may be further power outages this morning,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the villages worst affected in the Republic of Ireland is Milford in County Donegal with more 1,600 homes without power and Aghagad in County Sligo with over 1,200 homes impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ESB Networks says crews have been deployed to all impacted areas and they &#8220;expect the vast majority of impacted customers to have their supply restored by this evening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waves in Ballygally\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2f5d9371-dec4-43fa-bd9c-b366d0eab97f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"608\" height=\"342\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Tartan eyes \/ BBC Weather WatchersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a wet and windy weekend in Northern Ireland &#8211; this picture was taken this morning in Ballygally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of homes in Northern Ireland are without power after Storm Boelopublished at 11:55 GMT 11:55 GMT Holly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-813466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}