Some operating Irish power plants are also coming to the end of their operational lifetime.

The Power Station must be considered for use if the country is facing severe power shortages this winter according to Minister Burke.

Sonny from Paddy's Shop in Longford is having to make serious changes to his shop to keep it going.

The majority of the local outages in the region were in the North Longford area.

There were several electrical storms across the Shannonside region overnight

The outage was reported just after midday.

It's hoped power will be back at 2pm today.

The northwest is in for a bad evening of weather as a yellow warning comes into effect.