Storm Boelo Leaves Homes Without Power in Telaydon and Smithboro as ESB Crews Restore Supply
About 80 premises in the Telaydon area and 14 near Smithboro lost power on Sunday, and supply was cut earlier in Tydavnet. Nationally, Storm Boelo left 41,000 premises without electricity at its peak.
By the Monaghan Brief staff·Edited by Seamus McKenna·Published · 2 min read
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Storm Boelo cut power to homes and businesses across Co Monaghan over the weekend, with the largest local fault on Sunday morning, 25 October, in the Telaydon area, Northern Sound reported.
About 80 premises around Telaydon were without electricity. ESB Networks crews were deployed and said most supply should be back by 2pm. The Anglo-Celt, using ESB's PowerCheck map, reported a fault affecting 14 customers near Smithboro, also due to be fixed by 2pm. Supply had already been restored to customers in Tydavnet and Smithborough after earlier faults.
The Status Yellow wind warning for Monaghan, Cavan, Louth and Connacht expired at 10am on Sunday.
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RTÉ News reported that outages peaked at 41,000 premises at 7.45am on Sunday. ESB Networks said crews would "work late into the night" and some customers would be without supply overnight. Anyone who sees fallen wires or damaged equipment should not approach it and should call the ESB Networks emergency line on 1800 372 999.
Live fault information and estimated restoration times are on ESB Networks' PowerCheck service.
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Twelve homes were listed to rent in County Monaghan on Daft.ie this week, Northern Sound reports, part of a rise across Cavan and Monaghan from single-digit totals at the end of August.
A second named storm, Boelo, is due on Saturday, with a UK Met Office wind warning for the six northern counties along the Monaghan border. Gerry Murphy says it will bite harder locally than Storm Austen, which is mainly a southern and eastern event.
Met Éireann has put County Monaghan, along with every other county, under a Status Yellow rain warning for Storm Austen, the first named storm of the season. It runs from 7pm on Thursday 22 October to 8am on Friday 23 October, with localised flooding and difficult driving possible.
