Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, Aoife Kealy from Met Éireann says the "eye of the storm, at the moment, is centred just north of Ireland, and it is going to move off towards Scotland now in the next few hours".