Thursday will be generally humid and very warm or hot with variable cloud and some sunny spells, the best of these across the midlands and east.

Extremely strong and gusty northwest winds are expected with potential impatcs including fallen trees and damaged to power lines.

Met Éireann has issued a series of red warnings for some coastal counties

The Taoiseach visited the village on Monday to get a sense of ‘the explosive force of a whirlwind’ that hit on Sunday.

A series of weather warnings have been issued as Storm Elin tracks towards Ireland