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ESB says it is currently working to repair all faults on its network.
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Around 120,000 ESB customers in west Dublin were left without power after the blaze.
ESB Networks says its infrastructure has been bit by winds of up to 125km per hour.
Power at the busy northside Dublin hospital was out for 15 minutes as Storm Barney hit.
ESB said it is working to repair the fault that caused the outage.
The outage was caused by a fire at one of the network’s sub-stations.
There’s been a huge increase in similar incidents. Just in July, there were four in Galway, and one each in Wicklow, Laois and Cavan.
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Almost 2,500 customers are affected.
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A cluster of faults have been recorded by the ESB in the Kilmainham area of Dublin.
ESB said they are working on connecting homes by today or tomorrow, but some customers in isolated areas will not be connected until towards the end of the week.
ESB crews have been out overnight reconnecting customers. In the UK — there’s tens of thousands without power, and three severe flood warnings remain in place.
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ESB Networks says the problem is expected to be fixed tonight.
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ESB networks says it’s hoped the affected homes and businesses will be reconnected by lunchtime.
Latest figures show 82 per cent more gas customers were cut off last year, compared to 2011.
Homes in Raheny, Donaghmede and Howth were without power following a major service fault.
In Glassmore, Swords a fault has caused a power outage for around 21 houses and a fault in Cloyne, Co Cork means around 42 houses are without electricity.
ESB Networks says a transformer was damaged during storms, and that crews are working to restore power.
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The ESB says a cable fault in the Loughlinstown area meant just over 2,600 homes were without power this evening.
Meanwhile, the ESB has restored electricity to almost 15,000 households who lost power yesterday.
Heavy winds are expected to affect the east coast in particular today.
Heavy winds last night and early this morning caused a power cut to around 15,000 households.
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The ESB has said that it was a transformer failure that caused the outage on Sunday. Amazon’s backup generators failed after the power cut.
The ESB says only a few hundred customers were without power overnight after freak storms blacked out thousands of homes.