Long-suffering ESB staff are among those without power

REPAIR WORK

ESB technical crews were out repairing the damage from the latest storm, but many of them returned from work to find their own homes still in darkness.

Jim Hernan, ESB area manager for Cork, said the technicians were working in often hazardous conditions as they strive to bring light and heat back to huge swathes of the country hammered by hurricane force winds.