Power outage hits 150,000 households after Storm Éowyn deals 'unprecedented' damage
Engineers are still working around the clock to restore energy supplies following Storm Éowyn's battering.
Authorities in the Republic of Ireland are still battling to get power back to 180,000 homes in the wake of devastating Storm Éowyn.
Crews of specialist engineers are continuing to repair "unprecedented" damage to the electricity network after Friday's storm brought record wind speeds.
At one point, the Irish weather service Met Éireann recorded 183km/h (114mph) in Mace Head, County Galway.
ESB Networks said about 180,000 are without power three days after the storm hit, and it could be Friday before the vast majority of those impacted will have their power restored.
Meanwhile, 74,000 customers are without water, and 70,000 more are at risk due to power losses at water treatment plants.
Margaret Attridge of Uisce Éireann told Irish broadcaster RTÉ's Morning Ireland programme that most of the country's people without water live on the west coast, including Clare, Galway, Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, and Meath.
The worst-hit county is Galway, with about 22,000 people without access to water.
Ms Attridge said additional generators have been secured to help return power to treatment plants.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) to ask that the Dáil (lower house of Irish Parliament) is recalled "urgently" to address "the crisis facing the country in the aftermath" of Storm Éowyn.
"So many people are going through a very tough time with serious disruption to their lives," McDonald wrote on X.
"TDs must be given the opportunity to raise these issues and concerns directly with government and to engage on the responses and supports needed."
Work has been ongoing throughout the weekend to help with the clean-up operation after Storm Éowyn.
During its peak, about 768,000 people were without power.
A 20-year-old man died in the early hours of Friday morning after a tree fell on his car in County Donegal.
Kacper Dudek was travelling on the N14, north of Lifford, near Ballinalecky Cross, when the incident happened.
