Down here in Co Cork the wind hit sometime in the early hours but the house still stands and, so far, touching wood, crossing fingers etc, no outages. Seems to be easing off now and as the light grows there will be a better idea of any damage, but I'm not at all sure that it was any worse than the last storm we had before Xmas, in fact some stuff that that moved then looks to have stayed in place this time round.
The snow storm of two weeks ago should defo have been a red but it wasn't called, now this, which is a lot easier to cope with and it's panic stations all round with politicians getting up on their hind legs to look very important indeed. It's all a show.