Almost 300 customers without power in South Longford

Almost 300 people are without power between Ballymahon to Edgeworthstown this afternoon due to a major fault in the area.

The outage was reported just after 10:30am with 291 customers affected.

An earlier fault near Keenagh left 766 customers without power however that was restored in the last hour.

It comes ahead of a status yellow warning for strong winds and rain for the entire country from 10pm tonight.