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Status Orange Weather Warning For Kildare Today

TD Réada Cronin took to her Facebook page, sharing emergency lines for gas, flooding and electrical outages that might be useful today

Almost 400 thousand homes and businesses are without power this morning.

Storm Darragh has also caused travel disruption across in Kildare and the country this morning.

ESB crews are currently working to restore power to almost half a million customers.

Estimated restoration times are being uploaded to powercheck.ie - although further outages are expected as the effects of Storm Darragh continue to be felt.

It brought heavy rain and powerful gusts overnight, with fallen trees all over Kildare this morning, blocking some roads.

A nationwide status orange wind warning has now been downgraded to status yellow - it'll remain in place until 3 o'clock this afternoon.
 

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