After a morning of cancellations and delays, efforts to resume normal operation are well under way at airports across the country.
Although the winds have abated and flying conditions have improved, earlier cancellations have had knock-on effects and there are still some delays to flights.
At Shannon, Cork and Dublin Airports, all UK-bound flights with Aer Lingus are running more than an hour behind schedule. Aer Lingus hopes to resume normal operations by tonight.
Aer Arann was forced to cancel the majority of its flights earlier today. Attempts are now being made to resume normal operation.
While Ryanair says adverse weather conditions forced it to cancel two UK-bound flights earlier today, all of its flights are now operating to schedule.
There is still major disruption to ferry sailings. Since this morning, all Stenaline sailings from Dublin Port to Holyhead and Rosslare to Fishguard have been cancelled. The next Stenaline sailings from Dublin and Rosslare are due to depart later tonight but these are subject to weather conditions.
In the West, there is still no ferry service to the Aran Islands off the Co Galway coast as there has been no significant improvement to the weather there.
Bank of Ireland services hit by outage
Among those stranded on Inishmore was Minister of State Tom Parlon. Mr Parlon travelled to the island yesterday to attend a function and was unable to leave this morning for a round of engagements in the Galway city area.
With Met Éireann recording gusts of 141 km/h in Malin Head, it comes as no surprise that Co Donegal suffered some disruption.
3,000 households were without power for a time today. Although continuing high winds hampered repair work, the ESB said it hoped to have all power supplies restored by 6pm.
Bank of Ireland has said that a power outage affected its key systems and caused the loss of some customer services this morning.
Access to ATM and other card facilities were restored by midday. The bank's online and business payment systems have also been affected.
