A status yellow wind warning is in place for the whole country this morning.
Storm Franklin is bringing very strong winds with severe damaging gusts, with the alert lasting until 9am.
An orange wind warning for Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo will come to an end at 7am.
Mace Head recorded a gust of 139 kilometres an hour yesterday.
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Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather has the outlook for today:
"Well Storm Franklin is pulling away now this morning."
"The winds will slowly start to ease off this morning, and into this afternoon."
"But unfortunately, still some really strong gusts this morning."
