Storm Éowyn Passes
So it’s just after 11am on Friday 24th January 2025 and the Red Alert in my area related to Storm Éowyn has just been downgraded to Orange. It was very windy overnight and this morning, though there was no discernible damage to my house and no interruption to the electricity supply. That has not been the case for many others, though. There are a staggering 715,000 power outages across Ireland this morning. That’s so many that it will probably take many days to fix them all.
Here’s a map showing some of the power outages in my general vicinity:
I’m told that power is off in a few places in Maynooth and various traffic lights are not working; fallen trees are also blocking some roads. It’s still very windy – though the force seems to be abating quite quickly – so I think I’ll leave it a while before going out to see if there is any obvious damage in an around town. Shops and businesses would have been closed during the Red Alert, most planning to open around noon. Obviously that will depend on whether or not they have electricity.
Anyway the storm is now heading North East and its presence will soon be felt in Scotland
Update: 12.08, the weather warning was downgraded to yellow at noon. It’s still very windy though.
Update: 14.11, went for a walk into Maynooth. Traffic lights on Straffan Road out from the Glenroyal up to Main Street. All shops on Main Street closed and apparently without electricity. Traffic lights at the Roost are working as are those on Mill Street. Dunnes stores in Manor Mills is open but the rest of the shops are closed. South Campus was closed but I walked around North Campus; there are lots of branches of various sizes that have sheared off, but no serious damage that I saw. No sign of buses or trains having resumed.
In the Dark 
January 24, 2025 at 11:33 am
Still a red warning here until 2pm. Schools and universities closed, many if not all shops (including Tesco and Lidl) and people told to stay home. I still have memories of the last big storm a few months ago – when out driving a large roadside sign broke free and hit my car. Scary!
January 24, 2025 at 11:39 am
Cork is pretty much open for business now (this from a coffee shop on Grand Parade); UCC is supposed to be opening at 12 and looks likely to do so.
January 24, 2025 at 11:43 am
Good to hear! I haven’t heard of any fatalities anywhere either so that’s a relief.
January 24, 2025 at 11:42 am
I see there have been flights from Dublin. That must have been fun for the passengers….
January 24, 2025 at 12:01 pm
Yes, planes started taking off around 9am but landings were not due to resume until about 11.
February 1, 2025 at 4:51 pm
[…] the RTÉ Player. I had a ticket for last Friday’s concert but bottled out of going because of transport worries about Storm Éowyn. That concert went ahead, apparently, but wasn’t broadcast so I missed it. Last night was […]
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 pm
you were lucky! We had water restored on day 6 and power on day 7! Still waiting on broadband and phone is still patchy!
February 2, 2025 at 2:14 pm
There are still around 50,000 people without power.
February 2, 2025 at 2:15 pm
Sadly yes there are. My sister in law and brother in law are two of them. I don’t know how carers and the vulnerable in our society are managing. There are heartbreaking stories out there. Someone I know arrived into a house at day 4 of no power. The house was 8.8 degress