Thousands without power as Met warns of floods

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

The strong winds also left weatherman John Eagleton red-faced after he was forced to apologise to thousands of people across Donegal after he got the outcome of the hurricane wrong.

ESB crews worked all day to restore power to about 11,000 customers in Cavan, Longford, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal. Some 2,000 customers in Dublin and Meath were also left without electricity due to a outage in Coolmine.