Rural Ireland ‘like the 1930s’ with hundreds of thousands without power after storms

Caravan park owner Miko McCormack surveying the damage done to his business at Fanore Co Clare after Storm Éowyn. Picture: Eamon Ward

Ireland has lodged an emergency request for help with the EU for high capacity mobile generators, coming amid fears that over 100,000 people could be without power into next month.

As ESB Networks crews worked across the weekend in difficult conditions to restore power to more than 490,000 people, it confirmed that about 278,000 people could be without power until Friday.