Thousands of home without power in County Roscommon

Thousands of homes are this evening without power in County Roscommon as storm Isha makes its presence felt.
Thousands of homes are this evening without power in County Roscommon as storm Isha makes its presence felt.
With an orange weather warning in place for the county the strong winds have knocked out power to thousands of customers.
The areas worst affected at the moment include Ballaghaderreen where 1,856 customers are without power; Boyle where over 2,000 customers are without power and the Castlerea area where nearly 2,000 customers have been hit with power outages.
ESB Networks say crews are working on the problems and hope to have power restored as quickly as possible.