Emergency crews are cleaning up after a storm bearing record-breaking winds left at least one person dead and more than a million without power across the island of Ireland and Scotland.

Padraig Fahy, an organic vegetable farmer in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, said he "never heard wind like it" when Storm Éowyn struck. "I was genuinely frightened, I couldn't sleep during it," he added. Mr Fahy lost two of his nine polytunnels to the storm, representing damage to around 30% of his crop.

The storm had knocked out power to more than half a million utility customers by early Friday as it moved across Ireland.

A powerful storm has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and caused massive travel disruptions in the United Kingdom.

More than 1 million people in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland were left without electricity after Storm Éowyn (pronounced AY-oh-win) roared through on Friday. In Ireland, which suffered the heaviest damage,

Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.