Emergency crews began cleaning up on Saturday after a storm bearing record-breaking winds left at least one person dead and more than a million without power across Ireland and Scotland.
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Work was under way to remove hundreds of trees blocking roads and railway lines in the wake of the system, named Storm Éowyn (pronounced AY-oh-win) by weather authorities.
In Ireland, wind snapped telephone poles, ripped apart a Dublin ice rink and even toppled a giant wind turbine. A wind gust of 114mph was recorded on the west coast, breaking a record set in 1945.
A man died after a tree fell on his car in County Donegal in northwest Ireland, local police said. They named the victim as 20-year-old Kacper Dudek.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland, neighbouring Northern Ireland, and Scotland remained without electricity on Saturday,
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“The destruction caused by some of the strongest winds on record has been unprecedented,” said Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, adding that “every effort is being made to get high voltage transmission lines up and running, homes reconnected and water supplies secured.”