Winds gusting up to 100 miles per hour caused flooding, travel disruption and damage to buildings.
Fr Tony Finn from St Augustine’s Parish Galway told Premier the extent of the storm had made people in the area have to find shelter.
Speaking about his church’s close encounter with the storm, he said: “If the church was flooded, it would mean a lot of damage, it would mean a lot of people wouldn’t be able to attend our services and it also would mean maybe closure for some time.”
Flooding did occur in parts of Galway where 97mph gusts were recorded.
The Met Office’s yellow warning’s still in place for Wales, England, most of Northern Ireland and parts of southern Scotland.
Fr Finn said many people underestimated the strength of the storm.
He told Premier: “We knew that there was a storm coming but we didn’t think that it was going to be this bad because it came so fast and it went so fast.”
The UK and Ireland have been left counting the cost of the storm after violent winds tore a destructive trail across the country and plunged thousands of homes into darkness.
As the storm bore down on the UK and Ireland, tens of thousands of homes and businesses suffered power outages.
They included 55,000 properties in the Republic and 20,000 customers in Northern Ireland.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, which provides power to 3.8 million people across northern…
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