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Updated 13:15
ESB CREWS ARE continuing to restore power to thousands of homes after transformers were struck by lightning in a severe storm yesterday.
Over 20,000 homes and businesses in Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Kilkenny lost power and were out overnight as repairs were not able to be carried out due to the weather conditions.
ESB crews have now managed to restore power to around 12,500 customers and are currently working to restore power to the remaining 7,500 homes which are still without electricity in Waterford and South Wexford.
Transformers were struck by lightning in the south and south east of the country.
Customers have been advised by ESB on Twitter to keep up to date on the PowerCheck App.
ESB Networks spokesperson Mike Fitzgerald said the storm was unusual because it was very severe and prolonged.
Originally published 8:00am.
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Well done to ESB, I know I wouldn’t fancy that job in this weather.
Wouldn’t trade places with them even for one day! Outstanding work from our ESB crews
They do feck all most of the time they’re well rested
Don’t forget the overtime bill. I know several of them who refer to a storm add a ‘cha-ching’…..
Sunny South East bit of a misnomer !
Mostly contractors out that work.
MosTly ESBN staff as it happens
Love how people are freaking out about 100s of people being without water THAT THEY ARE PAYING FOR! But tens of thousands without power and it’s just another utility outage
You can buy water in a shop,where do you buy electricity??does your tv,lights,oven,kettle,heating etc run on water?
You can buy electricity in batteries in any shop.
ard na croise ;;is all water and gets electricity to 90% plus homes in Ireland
Neal barriers are dc your house electrics are ac
since when .but I think the tiger shoul have put most of power lines underground .. the wasted money could have done a lot ;;the men repairing are just doing their job ..ok now but sometimes do in snow and frost ….no thank you
I don’t get it..!
I live in Southern Florida. We get biblical sized storms 4 days a week here during the summer months and the power never goes out…
Anyone who’s visited here will know that…
How come tens of thousands of Irish homes have to suffer every time there’s a storm? The network should be built to withstand some lightning in this day and age…
Transformers won’t have an EIRCODE. ☺
Nerd!!!
Yeah but they do have an Optimus Prime so they’ll be grand!!!
Ah but you do everything bigger and better in the US don’t you ?
The usual spin from the well paid PR company. If your unlucky enough to be a single house you will be waiting for days.
if the cables were underground you would not have this problem
If the cables were underground and a fault occurred you could be waiting days for them to even locate the fault let alone fix it
*doing
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