Efforts are underway to try and locate a yacht off the southwest coast.

WHEREAS Tramore have captured the Barton Shield on three occasions, Mitchelstown were contesting the national finals of any competition when they took on Ballina in the semi-final of the Irish Junior Cup at Castlerock, Co Derry, yesterday.

THE tail-end of Hurricane Katia has made the practice rounds for the Chartis Irish Cups and Shields finals at Castlerock, Co Derry over the past few days more a test of stamina than skill, although it is confidently expected calm will have been restored when the festival gets under way today with the semi-finals of both the Barton Shield and Irish Junior Cup.

TENS of thousands of homes were left without electricity yesterday as the remnants of Hurricane Katia pounded our shores.

Between three and four thousand people are still without power this afternoon after stormy conditions disrupted power lines.

About 4,000 homes are without power after storm force winds swept across the country.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it is providing consular assistance to the family of an Irish man feared to be the first fatality due to Hurricane Katia in the US.

Motorists are being advised to drive with extra care this morning as Hurricane Katia continues to batter parts of Ireland.

A 33-YEAR-OLD Irishman is presumed dead after being swept out to sea by a “huge” Hurricane Katia wave as the storm hit the US before arriving in Ireland last night.

THE tail end of Hurricane Katia is set to deliver violent gale-force gusts across the north and west coast of the country today.

Some ferry services have been cancelled this evening, after Met Éireann issued a severe weather warning.

Stormy conditions will hit the country later tonight and on Monday, with winds of up to 130 kilometres per hour forecast as the remnants of Hurricane Katia makes its way across the Atlantic.

Severe gales and flooding are expected to hit parts of Ireland as Hurricane Katia makes its way across the Atlantic.

IRELAND will feel the effects of the remains of Hurricane Katia from tomorrow night — as forecasters warned of 160km/h winds causing building damage, coastal flooding, uprooted trees and transport chaos.

More than 100,000 residents have been ordered to move away from a flood-swollen river in Pennsylvania as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the US north east.

Flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee is being blamed for two deaths in Pennsylvania and numerous water rescues and road closures around a soggy north-eastern United States.

Tropical Storm Lee dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans and spun off tornadoes elsewhere as its centre came ashore in a slow crawl north that raised fears of inland flash flooding in America’s Deep South and beyond.

Forecasters in the US are warning of another hurricane headed their direction which is threatening to swell into a major storm by the weekend.