Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. are being urged to stay at home as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks.

Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, Aoife Kealy from Met Éireann says the "eye of the storm, at the moment, is centred just north of Ireland, and it is going to move off towards Scotland now in the next few hours".

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for one of the most intense storms in decades, with forecasters warning of extremely rare hurricane force winds and a danger to life