Approximately 22,000 homes, farms and businesses are without power across the Republic of Ireland as Storm Bram brought “very dangerous” winds to the island.

The entire island of Ireland was placed under weather advisories as forecasting agencies upgraded their warnings on Tuesday.

After a week of persistent rain, Irish forecasting agency Met Eireann said soils across the country were already highly saturated and many rivers were approaching bank-full conditions, so any additional rainfall was likely to result in surface and river flooding.

#StormBram will bring very windy or stormy conditions to Ireland today.

Southerly winds, veering westerly through the day, will be very strong to gale force, with some damaging gusts also expected⚠️

Persistent & heavy rain at first will gradually

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