€150m: Cost of storm’s trail of destruction

Households around the country are counting the cost of one of the worst storms of recent years, with one estimate putting the value of potential claims at up to €150m.

Winds that reached up to 135km/h lashed the country from St Stephen’s Day through to yesterday morning, leaving thousands of homes without power and severely disrupting transport.

ESB crews were out yesterday to restore power to the 70,000 homes which experienced outages, and expected to restore power to 5,000 more last night.