Met Eireann is warning there's no end in sight to the stormy weather - as hundreds of households and businesses count the cost of flood damage.

High tides, heavy rain and gale force winds caused severe flooding in parts of the West and South west yesterday.

The river Shannon burst its banks in several places - causing what's been described by locals in Limerick City as the most serious flooding in living memory.

Thousands of homes were also left without power and ESB crews have been working through the night to restore supplies to the last few hundred customers.

But as the clean up operation gets underway today - Meteorologist Jean Byrne warns that the current bad weather is set to stick around:

"Our forecasts go to about 10 days ahead and I'm afraid it looks like just one very active system after the another coming in from the Atlantic. So there's no improvement on the horizon, as far as we can see, for the moment."