Driver killed as tree plunges onto car during Storm Éowyn

A man has died after a tree fell on his car in during Storm Éowyn, police in the Republic of Ireland have confirmed.

The incident happened at around 5.30am in County Donegal, in the north-west of the country. Police and local emergency services went to the scene, at Feddyglass in Raphoe, after the tree fell onto the car on Friday.

He was sadly pronounced dead. Gardai, the Irish police, say they are working with the local authority and third party contractors to facilitate the removal of the man's body. The N14 road remains closed while forensic collision investigators and divisional scenes of crime continue an investigation at the scene, Belfast Live reports.

It comes as more than one million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland are without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island.

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island, with 725,000 customers affected in the Republic and 283,000 in Northern Ireland.

Some homes and businesses are expected to be without power for a week as an unprecedented number of power cuts are experienced.

No injuries have been reported in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn but it will take days to fully assess its impact, police said.