Additional engineers have been brought from Great Britain to help NIE teams with restoration task.

340,000 customers are still without power as of Sunday morning.

According to the ESB's powercheck map, the places with the most power fault clusters include areas around Kilkenny, Meath, Clare, Longford, and Sligo.

Almost 400,000 customers were without electricity at the peak of the storm.

There are reports of fallen trees and debris on many roads

Twelve thousand homes and businesses are still without power this evening after Storm Kathleen made landfall earlier

They said the areas that remain without power are predominantly in the Northwest, including the counties of Donegal, Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo.

ESB Networks confirmed approximately 93,000 homes and business were without power as of 5.30pm