Gerry Reilly is a guidance counsellor in St Macartans College in Monaghan and Secretary of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors.

The notice was issued due to power outages caused by Storm Éowyn affecting approximately 2,159 customers.

Maggie O'Rourke has described the situation as "scandalous."

A similar boil water notice for customers on the Belturbet public scheme remains in place at this time.

Latest figures from ESB Networks show that a week on from the severe weather event around 70,000 homes, farms and businesses remain without power - down from a peak of 768,000.

Cllr O'Reilly says workers being unable to obtain felling licences left it wide open for a storm to happen and cause such destruction.

ESB, Networks Senior Manager Barry Comiskey said that more crews were coming to the region tomorrow from Austria.

The ETB is liaising with the insurance company and work to secure and repair the damage has already commenced.