First Minister Michelle O’Neill has backed the Irish president’s decision to highlight the conflict in Gaza during a Holocaust memorial event. But Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said the Irish head of state’s comments were “absolutely wrong”.

Storm Éowyn, a tempest of remarkable ferocity, has swept across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, leaving a trail of disruption and prompting the issuance of unprecedented red weather warnings across both regions.

NI's deputy first minister criticised Michael D Higgins for raising the conflict in Gaza while the First Minister said he was right to air his personal views. | UTV News

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

More than 100,000 remain without power in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn. Additional engineers have been brought to the region from Great Britain to help NIE Networks with the task of restoring power.

Clean-up operations are anticipated to take days and possibly even weeks in some parts of Northern Ireland, with Storm Éowyn bringing gusts of over 90mph across some parts of the region.

The red warning for the whole of Northern Ireland will be in force until 14:00 on Friday. It is the first time a red weather warning has been issued for Northern Ireland since an impact-based system was introduced in 2011.

The DUP use of a Stormont mechanism in a bid to prevent an EU law coming into force in Northern Ireland has the potential to disrupt post-Brexit trading systems, Michelle O’Neill has said.

Northern Ireland's political leaders urge people to stay at home on Friday during Storm Éowyn. All schools in Northern Ireland will close. The Met Office says there is a danger t

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust memorial event.

Two killed in Eowyn’s hurricane-force gales as UK braces for fresh 80mph winds and heavy rain - Dozens of flights from Heathrow have been cancelled as the Met Office issues warnings for more wind and

Further support has been promised from London as work continues to repair damage caused across Northern Ireland by Storm Eowyn. On Sunday evening, more than 75,000 people remained without power and work continued to clear fallen trees from roads.