Storm Éowyn, a tempest of remarkable ferocity, has swept across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, leaving a trail of disruption and prompting the issuance of unprecedented red weather warnings across both regions.

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 of Ireland,

More than 93,000 homes and business in Northern Ireland are currently without power, NIE has confirmed. Dozens of flights have also been cancelled at Belfast airports this morning as high winds from Storm Éowyn begin to batter Northern Ireland.

Speaking at Stormont today, First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald spoke about Conor Murphy’s decision to run in elections for the Seanad in the Republic of Ireland. McDonald also says her party plan to hold the newly elected Irish government to account over the issue of reunification.

Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.

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

The red warning for the whole of Northern Ireland will be in force until 14:00 on Friday. It is the first time a red weather warning has been issued for Northern Ireland since an impact-based system was introduced in 2011.

“We have been working closely with the Met Ofiice and other agencies to keep updated on the progress of the storm,” Caron Malone, head of transmission strategy at NIE Networks, told BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback programme.

Millions of mobile phone users got an emergency alert as people in Scotland and Northern Ireland warned to stay indoors and schools to close

The DUP use of a Stormont mechanism in a bid to prevent an EU law coming into force in Northern Ireland has the potential to disrupt post-Brexit trading systems, Michelle O’Neill has said.

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