{"id":623475,"date":"2025-12-10T04:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:34:25","slug":"storm-bram-leaves-roads-flooded-and-homes-without-power-across-northern-ireland-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623475\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Bram leaves roads flooded and homes without power across Northern Ireland \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work-teams face a busy day today clearing up the aftermath of Storm Bram and restoring power to any homes still without electricity.<\/p>\n

The weather system saw winds top 70mph yesterday as thousands were left without power, roads were flooded, and the adverse weather sparked travel chaos for many.<\/p>\n

NIE<\/a> Networks and ESB Networks crews were working to reconnect thousands of customers to the grid last night after homes north and south were left in darkness as a result of the storm.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day many homes were left without power and many commuters faced travel chaos with roads unpassable due to heavy rains and flooding.<\/p>\n

\"Special<\/a>\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

Wind speeds topped almost 70mph in the east with speeds typically reaching between 50mph and 60mph. <\/p>\n

Amber and yellow weather<\/a> warnings were in force across the north with the amber wind warning extended to 8pm, and the yellow alert in place until 10pm last night.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Met Office had issued a \u2018danger to life\u2019 warning due to the possibility of flying debris.<\/p>\n

An orange warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford expired at 4pm.<\/p>\n

A separate orange warning for all of Connacht, as well as Cavan, Monaghan, Clare, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath and Offaly was put in place until 7pm.<\/p>\n

A third orange warning for Donegal was announced for between 2pm and 9pm.<\/p>\n

There was flooding in many parts, with some of the worst seen in Co Down<\/a> and Co Antrim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waves topped the sea walls in Carrickfergus<\/a> and the Belfast Road in the area was also closed for a time due to a collapsed wall.<\/p>\n

Many coastal roads in Co Down and along the Ards Peninsula were also impassable due to flooding. <\/p>\n

There was traffic disruption in Newry city centre and motorists along the Rostrevor Road in Warrenpoint were also hampered by flooding. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it was just road users who were affected as Translink closed the rail line between Carrickfergus and Larne Harbour for a time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, services on the Belfast to Portadown and Belfast to Derry lines were also affected due to the weather. <\/p>\n

In Co Down, flooding on Kilkeel Road halted all bus services between Newcastle and Kilkeel for a time. <\/p>\n

The Strangford Ferry was also cancelled for a time yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

At total of 21 flights to and from Belfast City Airport were cancelled due to the storm.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 91 flights from Dublin were also grounded.<\/p>\n

There were also delays reported to flights from Belfast International Airport.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a number of P&O and Stenaline ferry crossings from Belfast and Larne to Scotland were also cancelled due to the weather.<\/p>\n

At lunchtime the Education Authority (EA) advised schools that they should be \u201cflexible on school leaving times\u201d.<\/p>\n

A number of schools confirmed they had closed earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just commuters and school goers who felt the brunt of Storm Bram, as many events were also cancelled in the wake of the carnage.<\/p>\n

The North Belfast derby between Cliftonville and Crusaders was also called off due to the adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n

The Belfast<\/a> Christmas Market was also shut for the day as a result of the adverse weather conditions. <\/p>\n

Many council-owned parks across Northern Ireland were also shuttered for the day due to the weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work-teams face a busy day today clearing up the aftermath of Storm Bram and restoring power to any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,114116,78922,88580,16767,37806,193774,1144,16744,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-623475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-carrickfergus","10":"tag-co-antrim","11":"tag-co-down","12":"tag-derry","13":"tag-flooding","14":"tag-nie","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-storm","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115693412706988569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}