POWER HAS been restored to parts of south Dublin affected by outages this morning.

The ESB said electricity has now been fully restored to affected customers, after a fire at one of the network’s sub-stations in Leopardstown left almost 20,000 households in the dark.

Customers in the #Mount Merrion #Blackrock #Booterstown areas of #Dublin now have their power fully restored Apologies again #staysafe
— ESB Networks (@ESBNetworks) September 12, 2015

ESB Networks / Twitter

Three units of the Dublin Fire Brigade responded to the alarm after it was raised at around 5:30am.

The outage affected homes and businesses in the Mount Merrion, Stillorgan and Rathfarnham areas.

Local residents tweeting this morning have thanked ESB for resolving the issue.

@ESBNetworks thanks for the hard work. I have some pretty tough 'almost-cold yoghurt' decisions ahead of me.
— M Hawk1 (@m_hawk_1) September 12, 2015

Michael Hawkins / Twitter

@ESBNetworks our power just came back in mt Merrion, many thanks to your crews for their hard work
— pluincee (@pluincee) September 12, 2015

pluincee / Twitter

@ESBNetworks Thanks for fixing the problem with our power, can now enjoy my lazy Saturday #staysafe
— JOANNA O'NEILL (@jroneill12) September 12, 2015

JOANNA O'NEILL / Twitter

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