About 40,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Northern Ireland this morning.
People trying to make their way to work woke up to find many routes are blocked, with more than 1,000 obstructions reported across the road network since yesterday afternoon.
Trees at major tourist attractions, the Dark Hedges (as made famous by Game of Thrones), are among those to have come down under the winds.
The clear-up is more complicated and may take a lot longer because road workers are on strike. Officials responsible for the roads say they’ve implemented contingency plans using private contractors and staff who are not on strike.
Regarding air travel, things appear to have returned to normal for Belfast’s two airports and City of Derry Airport in the west.
However, there’s a warning some flights could suffer knock-on delays after last night’s chaos, which saw some Northern Ireland-bound flights end up in Manchester, Liverpool, and even Paris.
It’s a similar picture across the entire island of Ireland, with more than 235,000 homes and businesses without power in the Republic of Ireland.
Dublin Airport reports its operations are returning to normal, although 29 flights have been cancelled so far today.
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