First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly called on NIE Networks to make goodwill payments to those cut off.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly called on NIE Networks to make goodwill payments to those cut off.

Flights, trains and ferries have been cancelled across the UK as 100mph pose a danger to life in parts of the UK.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic

Millions have received an emergency phone alert over the approaching Storm Éowyn, as schools and transport networks are due to shut and people asked to stay home in parts of the UK.

OVER 1,000 flights have been axed at airports across the UK impacting thousands of Brits as 114mph Storm Eowyn arrives. No flights at all will operate from Edinburgh Airport between 10am and 5pm

The latest named weather bomb, Storm Eowyn, has already set a wind speed record as 114mph gales were recorded in Ireland, forecasters have said.

Rare red weather warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland as strong winds are expected across the whole of the UK on Friday. | ITV National News

LONDON (AP) — Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for one of the most intense storms in decades, with forecasters warning of extremely rare hurricane-force winds and a danger to life.

Storm Eowyn has hit Britain and Ireland with “once in a generation” hurricane-force winds, cancelling more than 1,000 flights and leaving 600,000 homes and businesses without power as forecasters warn more is to come.

Tens of thousands of homes in Ireland lost power on Friday as winds of 183 kilometres per hour lashed the country's western coast. Météo France has warned that Storm Eowyn will cause heavy rainfall

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. were urged to stay at home Friday as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions. Forecasters issued a rare “red” weather warning,