Over 25,000 customers were left without power and Irish Rail services were affected.
Updated: 9am, 23 February
Shortly before 9am on Friday morning, ESB reported that affected customers had their power fully restored.
Customers affected by the earlier outage in #Dublin should now have their power fully restored apologises again #Staysafe
— ESB Networks (@ESBNetworks) February 23, 2018
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A “large power fault” left more than 25,000 ESB customers without power in north Dublin and the surrounding areas on Friday morning.
Having initially reported a “large fault” in Carpenterstown and Dublin 15 on Friday morning, ESB Networks subsequently reported the fault in the Dublin area after customers reported outages in areas such as Castleknock, Palmerstown, Coolmine and Ashbourne in Meath.
We have a large fault in the #Carpenterstown AND surrounding areas of #Dublin15 updates shortly on https://t.co/VMtxFsdIxw Apologies
— ESB Networks (@ESBNetworks) February 23, 2018
We have a large fault affecting customers in the #Dublin area initial ert is 8.15 see https://t.co/VMtxFsdIxw for updates Apologies
— ESB Networks (@ESBNetworks) February 23, 2018
As of shortly after 8am on Friday morning, faults in Clonshaugh, Merville and Ashbourne were reported on powercheck.ie, with over 25,000 customers affected.
Power is expected to be restored in Clonshaugh shortly after 9am and in Merville and Ashbourne before midday.
Dublin City Council warned that lights are out on the north and west sides of the city as a result of the power outages, while Irish Rail customers and DART customers were warned of significant delays to services.
Numerous lights out on north and west side of city due to ESB power outage , please proceed with caution
— Traffic Management Centre (@DCCTraffic) February 23, 2018
Significant delays to northbound DART and northern commuter services due to power outage in North Dublin. Update to follow:
— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 23, 2018
Update: Delays to northbound services due to power outage in north Dublin. Dublin Bus is accepting rail tickets on Dublin Northside services
— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 23, 2018
Update: Services have now resumed on the northside. Expect delays due to earlier power outage
— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 23, 2018
Affected customers are advised to check powercheck.ie for updates.
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