Orange warning for Cork and Kerry as Storm Kathleen to sweep country at weekend

The status orange wind warning will impact Cork, Kerry, Galway and Mayo from 7am on Saturday until 5pm that evening

Conditions on Saturday morning will be very windy with widespread showers and gusts of upwards of 100km/h forecast. File picture: Denis Minihane

Storm Kathleen is set to sweep through Ireland this weekend with a status orange wind warning being issued for four counties.

It comes as a nationwide status yellow wind warning has also been issued by Met Éireann.