Latest: Vodafone restoring power to customers who had outages

Latest: Vodafone are restoring power to customers affected by today's outages - though it may take hours for full service to resume.

Update 5.30pm: Vodafone Ireland says service is being restored following a 'technical fault' that caused disruption for customers.

The phone network appeared to have suffered a major outage today, with customers around the country reporting problems.