Without electricity or heating for four days, the O’Dwyers in Co Limerick have taught their kids card games, Cluedo and charades

Taoiseach warns extreme cold could be ‘dangerous to life’ with temperatures set to fall to -8 degrees in places

Country facing ‘very difficult and very challenging’ conditions, says director of emergency taskforce

Some schools to remain closed on Tuesday while more than 17,000 households and businesses still without electricity

Yellow warning in effect until noon on Tuesday while thousands remain without power and water

Impassable roads in south, west and centre of country due to build up of snow

Met Éireann forecaster: ‘The snow isn’t really going to melt so where snow falls we are going to have it for several days next week’

Red warning for two counties while orange warning in place for six counties

Intense falls of rain due between midnight and 10am on Saturday morning after cold days with snow in parts

Wintry scenes from around Ireland as snow falls overnight and Met Éireann extends weather warnings

Hazardous conditions from ice on roads and paths may cause travel disruption, says Met Éireann

Met Éireann is forecasting that temperatures will take a steep drop nationwide

Met Éireann says ‘people are going to get quite a shock as the temperatures plummet’ from Monday

There’s a slim line between the drizzle of a soft day and the heavy yet almost imperceptible precipitation we like to call ‘wet rain’