Thousands of customers in Limerick city and county have had their power restored overnight following a major outage.

Around 2,000 customers were originally reported to have been without power.

The power went out just after 7pm yesterday evening, following a fault in the Southill substation.

Locals said they heard a loud bang and saw a bright light before the electricity went out.

Customers in #Limerickcity should now have Supply fully restored apologies for the outage #Staysafe

— ESB Networks (@ESBNetworks) January 2, 2015

Originally posted at 20.30