🚨09.35 Connolly/Rosslare will be operated by bus transfers due to debris and flooding on the line.

🚨Staff are working to clear the line so that services can resume. Updates will be posted as soon as we have further information. -AD pic.twitter.com/A2jAUykg0i

— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 6, 2026

Once the Status Orange alert elapses at 9am in Dublin, the county come under the same Status Yellow warning that Cavan, Meath and Monaghan is currently under until 12pm.

Leonard also said the National Emergency Coordination Group is on “full alert right throughout the weekend”.

“Rainfall will be much lower over the weekend, but that lag will continue to have an effect across the weekend, and then we’re back into more rainfall next Monday and Tuesday as well.”

Meanwhile, Leonard said a “key focus” of the National Emergency Coordination Group meeting at noon today will be “restoring public transport and travel conditions, making sure roads are unblocked where they can be”.

He said the meeting will also “ascertain if there’s been any damage to properties overnight an what humanitarian assistance and business assistance is required today and into the weekend”.

Keith Leonard has also been speaking to RTÉ and has urged motorists to turn back if they come across flooding.

“Unfortunately, every day this week, we’ve had to rescue people from trapped cars, and they’re dangerous and it causes a lot of stress for people when that happens”.

Meanwhile, he said there has been a “little bit of good news” as the overnight rainfall “wasn’t quite as heavy as it was predicted to be”.

However, Leonard said this doesn’t mean that “conditions won’t be difficult today”.

“We have the coincidence of very high tides, surface flooding and very high river levels.

“So we’re hopeful we might get away today without too much damage to property, but I think you’ll see roads flooded, and particularly along those coastal areas.”

Leonard added that “we won’t really know the full impacts” of overnight rain on the Dublin and Wicklow mountains “until later today and early tomorrow”.

Keith Leonard, Chairperson of the National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG), said there doesn’t seem to have been major damage overnight but speaking on Newstalk, he reiterated an appeal for people in the Status Orange counties to work from home where possible.

“It would free up capacity on the road network and public transport for people who need to get into work,” he added.

Meanwhile, the NECG is due to meet again at noon.

Met Éireann meteorologist Mark Bowe has said that the rain is moving northwards quicker than anticipated.

He added this the rain is also starting to ease after a very wet night.

And while the warning times for Status Orange alerts have been reduced, Bowetold RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that the risk of river and localised flooding will persist after the warnings end.

Bowe added that it will be somewhat drier tomorrow and Sunday but it will be unsettled with plenty of cloud and cooler nights. 

Here are the latest updates from Irish Rail this morning:

The following services have been cancelled. -AD

05:35 Rosslare/Connolly, bus transfers to Connolly

05:45 Gorey/Connolly, bus transfers to Connolly

07:10 Rosslare/Connolly will operate to Wicklow, bus transfers from Wicklow to Connolly

— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 6, 2026

Update:
➡DARTs operating between Greystones & Clongriffin (both directions).
➡Belfast & Northern Commuter resuming between Malahide & Howth Junction. Significant delays expected & additional stops.
➡DARTs remain suspended between Malahide & Clongriffin. -AD https://t.co/DseddJuq9Y

— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 6, 2026

Update:
➡DARTs operating between Greystones & Clongriffin (both directions).
➡Belfast & Northern Commuter resuming between Malahide & Howth Junction. Significant delays expected & additional stops.
➡DARTs remain suspended between Malahide & Clongriffin. -AD https://t.co/DseddJuq9Y

— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) February 6, 2026

Yesterday, Wicklow County Council said that while many rivers remain close to or above bank-full levels, most have receded from the peaks seen last week.

However, it warned that further heavy rainfall overnight was likely to trigger additional flooding due to saturated ground conditions.

The public had also been advised to stay away from Wicklow Town Promenade, Bray Seafront and Arklow’s North Beach revetment due to risk of wave overtopping.

In Wicklow, the Status Orange warning remains in place until 9am.

Met Éireann has revised the times when a number of warnings will end. Here’s where all the alerts in place today are due to be lifted:

• Status Orange rain warnings in Dublin, Wicklow and Waterford will be lifted at 9am
• A Status Orange rain warning in Louth will be lifted at 12pm
• Status Yellow rain warnings in Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford and Tipperary will be lifted at 9am
• Status Yellow rain warnings for Cavan, Monaghan and Meath will be lifted at 12pm

Meanwhile in the North, a Status Yellow rain warning issued by the UK Met Office for counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone and Derry will be lifted at midnight tonight.

Met Éireann forecasts that rain will travel north this morning, with heaviest and most persistent rain in the east and northeast, with the continued risk of flooding. 

Iarnród Éireann currently has bus transfers in place at Rosslare and Gorey, as well as Wicklow and Bray due to flooding and debris on the line.

Meanwhile, the DART line is closed between Lansdowne and Dún Laoghaire due to flooding.

“We’re in a better situation than we were yesterday,” said an Iarnród Éireann spokesperson this morning, “but we do still have some minor impacts”.

And on the Luas, all Red and Green Lines services are operating normally though Luas passengers are advised to allow extra time for travel today.

And in non-weather related disruptions, DART, Belfast & Northern Commuter services are suspended between Malahide and Howth Junction due to a mechanical fault with a maintenance vehicle and crews are working to rectify the issue.

The timings of the Status Orange alerts have been amended by Met Éireann this morning.

The Orange warning in Dublin and Wicklow had been due to be in place until 3pm this afternoon, but will now elapse at 9am.

In Waterford the warning is unchanged and will elapse at 8am, while in Co Louth the end of the alert has been brought forward from 6pm this evening until 12 noon.