One of the country's main children's hospitals is without power today.
Parents are being urged NOT to bring their sick children to Temple Street in Dublin due to the outage.
5 pediatric intensive care patients at Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin have been transferred to Crumlin as a result.
More than 20 scheduled surgeries have been cancelled and parents are being asked not to bring their children to Temple Street.
The hospital has been placed off call for ambulances.
All other in-patients at the hospital are stable and can be cared for within existing resources.
Dublin Hospitals - Crumlin, Tallaght, the Mater and Beaumont have been alerted and will accept transfers as required.
Technical and engineering services in the Mater have also been contacted and have offered support to Temple Street
At 3am this morning, Thursday 4th August, there was an 8 second interrutuption to power supply and the hospital switched over to run on its own generator as is standard practice.
The transformer in the hospital’s own sub-station had developed a fault and shut down which will necessitate it being replaced. We expect this to happen by Saturday, 6th August.
An additional generator is en route to the hospital and should be connected by this evening. This will provide a more contingent supply of power until a new transformer is in place.
The Hospital says once the additional generator is installed, normal services will resume.
