A boil water notice has been re-issued for 500 people in Co Limerick.

Residents of a Galway village are being warned not to drink from the public water supply.

As another Atlantic storm bears down on the country today threatening to bring flooding in its wake, tens of thousands of homes could face days without clean drinking water thanks to the 170km/h storms that battered Ireland on Wednesday.

Cork County Council and Irish Water have issued a boil water notice to almost 80 parts of the county due to fears that the supply was contaminated during Wednesday’s storms.