Flights cancelled amid travel disruption in storm

Dozens of flights person been cancelled astatine Belfast City Airport and Dublin Airport arsenic Storm Ashley continues to origin disruption.

The Met bureau has issued an amber informing for occidental counties from 13:00 BST to 20:00. However, a yellowish informing for upwind remains successful spot for each of Northern Ireland until midnight.

Gusts of up to 115km/h (70mph) person been predicted.

Those winds could origin powerfulness cuts, harm to buildings, and much question disruption.

Met Éireann, who contented warnings crossed the Republic of Ireland, named the tempest and issued its second-highest level of informing - Status Orange - for counties including Galway and Mayo, from 10:00 section clip connected Sunday until 20:00.

In a rider update posted connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, Dublin Airport said upwind conditions had led to immoderate airlines cancelling flights.

The cancellations chiefly impact Aer Lingus flights.

Meanwhile Stenaline and P&O sailngs betwixt Northern Ireland and Scotland are heavy affected, with astir sailings connected Sunday cancelled.

Translink is besides informing of imaginable disruption to the obstruction web connected Sunday, owed to the upwind conditions.

Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure said impermanent tidal flood defences were being deployed on the River Lagan astatine high-risk areas specified arsenic Lockview Road and Cutters Warf successful southbound Belfast.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council said the district’s 4 wood parks (Castlewellan, Delamont, Kilbroney and Slieve Gullion) are closed to vehicles owed to the hazard of falling branches and debris.

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council person besides announced closures of immoderate outdoor assembly facilities, including Gortin Glens Forest Park.

And successful the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, each nationalist parks and writer pitches are closed arsenic are recycling centres astatine Pennyburn, Strathfoyle, and Strahan's Road.

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon assembly announced that determination whitethorn beryllium a hold successful opening household recycling centres connected Monday.

Very beardown winds are forecast crossed the full of Ireland and parts of Great Britain, particularly Scotland.

Along exposed coasts and precocious ground, gusts whitethorn scope up to 70-80 mph (113-129km/h).

The full westbound seashore of the Republic of Ireland is nether a ‘Status Orange’ warning.

That’s the 2nd highest level of informing and indicates an accrued hazard of harm and disruption.

Met Éireann is forecasting coastal flooding, hard question conditions, and unsafe seas on counties Clare, Kerry, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, and Sligo.

A yellowish informing was issued crossed the remainder of the state from midnight connected Saturday until 03:00 BST connected Monday.

The latest tempest sanction play started connected 1 September and volition beryllium utilized until 31 August 2025.

Ashley is the archetypal sanction connected the alphabetical database truthful the adjacent tempest would beryllium named Bert, followed by Conall.

Storms tin beryllium named by the Met Office, Met Éireann oregon the Netherlands meteorological work (KNMI) if immoderate judge impacts from terrible upwind are "medium" oregon "high".

It is thought that by naming storms, it gives the nationalist a greater consciousness of the imaginable impacts of terrible weather.