The storm brought 100 mile-per-hour winds to the island and also battered Scotland and northern England. Britain’s weather office issued a red warning, its highest level of alert.

Some 185,000 customers are without power across Northern Ireland - and this map from NIE Networks mapping the outages gives some insight into the extent of the problem. Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly says the deployment of additional electrical engineers to NI is a "positive development".