More than a million homes and businesses without power across island of Ireland

A fallen tree and telegraph pole on Grove Park Drive in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Wire)

More than one million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland are without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island.

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island, with 725,000 customers affected in the Republic and 283,000 in Northern Ireland.