First Minister Michelle O’Neill has backed the Irish president’s decision to highlight the conflict in Gaza during a Holocaust memorial event. But Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said the Irish head of state’s comments were “absolutely wrong”.

Storm Éowyn, a tempest of remarkable ferocity, has swept across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, leaving a trail of disruption and prompting the issuance of unprecedented red weather warnings across both regions.

NI's deputy first minister criticised Michael D Higgins for raising the conflict in Gaza while the First Minister said he was right to air his personal views. | UTV News

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.

Northern Ireland is in “the eye of the storm ... stay safe and stay off the roads please.” First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have urged ...

Schools were closed, and trains, ferries and hundreds of flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland ... you can,” Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said on BBC Radio ...

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust memorial event.

Frustrating: Northern Ireland's First Minister O'Neill gives Storm Eowyn update. The First Minister reassured people affected by Storm Eowyn 'everything's being done' to restore power caused by the storm.

Michelle O’Neill said she will make a judgement on an invitation to St Patrick’s Day events in Washington when her office receives the itinerary. The First Minister said that Northern Ireland ...

The red warning for the whole of Northern Ireland will be in force until 14:00 on Friday. It is the first time a red weather warning has been issued for Northern Ireland since an impact-based system was introduced in 2011.

Weather warnings in place as new storm hits UK after two killed in Eowyn - Dozens of flights from Heathrow have been cancelled as the Met Office issues warnings for more wind and rain