Severe weather warnings remain in place as parts of Ireland prepare for another day of storm battering.

As a result of the exceptionally stormy conditions, some flights have been diverted, delayed or cancelled as a result of severe gusty winds at Dublin Airport.

About 7,000 homes and businesses are without power after storm-force winds battered the country.

Proposed price rises to electricity bills in Northern Ireland are set to be limited by the UK's Competition Commission.

Snow drifts and abandoned vehicles continue to hamper efforts to restore power to 800 homes and businesses cut off when blizzard conditions hit the North.

Met Éireann's snow-and-ice weather warning remains in place as more snow is forecast in some parts today.

Met Eireann still have a weather warning in place for counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Louth, Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow and Meath.

Met Eireann is forecasting up to ten centimetres of snow in some parts of the country tonight.

More than 44,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland have been left without power after the region was battered by snow, sleet and storm force winds.

Northern Ireland’s World Cup qualifying football match against Russia has become one of the biggest casualties of the snowstorm that has engulfed large parts of the North.

About 900 homes in the North are still without power as a result of heavy snow and high winds.

The ESB recorded a sharp decline in profits in the first half of last year.

He is also a board member of Gemalto NV and sits on the audit committee and the strategy and M&A committee.

The Government has vowed to retain majority control of the ESB after it agreed to part-privatise the semi-state company to meet commitments under the EU/IMF bailout deal.

The Government has agreed to privatise part of the ESB to meet commitments set out in the EU/IMF bailout deal.

SMARTGRID technology firm FMC-Tech has been sold to General Electric, in a move expected to result in rapid growth of the business in overseas markets.

The North's main gas supplier is eyeing up Bord Gais assets earmarked for sale.

A raft of state-owned companies face being broken up or sold off under radical plans to raise €5bn and pull Ireland out of the red.

The Government has ruled out any sudden sale of commercial state-controlled companies.

More than 30,000 customers were left without power in the North this afternoon after a contractor damaged a power cable.

Ousted Northern Ireland Water boss Laurence MacKenzie is a convicted embezzler, it was revealed today.

The ESB has completed a €1.4bn deal to buy Northern Ireland Electricity.

THE ESB’s €1.25 billion takeover of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has been approved by the Competition Authority, three months after it was agreed between the two parties.

A NUMBER of companies were effectively paid for using electricity last month, when for the first time wholesale electricity prices fell into negative territory.

UNIONIST leaders in the North have formally objected to the ESB’s planned takeover of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE); a deal which was initially announced back in July.

A public inquiry is to be held into controversial plans for an overhead electricity interconnector across the border, it was announced today.

THE ESB has purchased Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) for more than £1 billion (€1.2bn).

ESB has agreend to purchase Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) in a deal worth more than €1.2bn, it was announced today.

THE ESB is in exclusive talks to buy the power network owned by the Viridian Group in Northern Ireland.

Electricity has been restored to all of the 100,000 homes which lost power in severe weather in the North last week.

Northern Ireland Electricity says it has restored power to 99% of homes that were cut off by heavy snow on Tuesday.

Work was under way today to repair a four-mile stretch of power lines brought down in blizzards in the North as 10,000 properties endured their third day without electricity.

Emergency shelters are being set up for those who are still without power across the North.

Authorities are working round to clock to restore power in the North after Tuesday night's snow storms.

Heavy snow and winds caused overnight chaos in parts of the North with up to 300 people rescued from a mountain road after conditions overwhelmed vehicles.

Blizzards, gale force winds and torrential rain have hit power supplies and caused transport chaos in the North.

A Belfast IT company will create almost 100 new highly-skilled jobs, it was revealed today.

Electricity customers in the North can look forward to another fall in their bills over the coming months.

More people in the North lost electricity supply in the last year because of people using heavy machinery, it was revealed today.

Northern Ireland Electricity is pressing ahead with a planning application for an overhead cross-border electricity interconnector after being told an underground cable would cost seven times as much.

Up to 7,000 homes across Ireland were still without power today as storms caused widespread damage and claimed the life of a woman whose car was hit by a falling tree.

A woman in her 30s was killed when a falling tree struck her car as severe storms lashed the country, police in the North revealed tonight.

The North's Executive will hold a special meeting this morning where it is expected to finalise an economic aid package to tackle the credit crunch.