Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home.

The bank has blamed the decision to shut the branches on customers shifting away from banking in person to using mobile services.

Showcasing the best young boxing talent, BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Wales and BBC Scotland will broadcast a series of three boxing events live on BBC iPlayer and BBC television, starting with Belfast on Saturday 1 February. Nations Fight Night will bring live boxing back to BBC audiences right across the UK.

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for one of the most intense storms in decades, with forecasters warning of extremely rare hurricane force winds and a danger to life

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m

Storm Eowyn Friday continued to cause power outages for hundreds of thousands, knocked down trees and disrupted transportation as it moved across Scotland and Northern Ireland into Britain's West Midlands region.

Three years have passed since substantial changes were made to the GB Highway Code, which introduced new rules on a ‘hierarchy of road users’, junction priority, close passes, and much more. While the Northern Ireland government is waiting to see the impact of those changes, Cycling UK has warned that greater delays will cost more lives.

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 almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Damage could be seen in Belfast in Northern Ireland on Friday as a major storm continued to lash Ireland and Scotland with hurricane-force winds.

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

According to Guy Carpenter, Storm Eowyn’s wind-insured loss return period is estimated to be around 1-in-7 years for Ireland and less than 1-in-5 years for the UK. These estimates are based on loss models from Moody’s RMS HD Europe Windstorm Model and Verisk’s Extra-Tropical Cyclone Model for Europe.