The West Wind with Therese McInerney

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Road Users again warned of high winds.

Pedestrians and cyclists are being urged to take extreme care this morning as high winds continue throughout the country.

Hilly areas in the North and West are the worst affected, however Met Eireann says the gusts are nothing like the storms earlier in the week.

Winds are expected to gust up to 120 kilometres per hour in places.

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The ESB’s continuing its efforts to reconnect customers electricity supply today.

250 households or businesses are without power as a result of the high winds that have battered the country for several days now.

The remaining faults are centred on Counties Cork, Donegal, Wexford, Dublin, Galway and Cavan – but the company’s confident the problems will be resolved shortly.

Meanwhile

Eircom is still working to repair some 6-thousand faults, reported by customers after severe weather earlier this week.

The company says 1-thousand-500 faults were cleared yesterday.

Extra staff members have been redeployed to tackle the worst affected areas – in Donegal, Sligo, Galway and Mayo.

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