The storm brought record-breaking winds as it battered Ireland, Scotland and northern England on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of electricity customers were in the dark.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

Nearly one million properties are without power in the UK and Ireland while trains and ferries have been cancelled as emergency responders work to fix the damage caused by Storm Éowyn. The storm brought gusts of more than 100 mph (161 km/h) on Friday, leaving one man dead after a tree fell on a car in Ireland.