the americas cup dream overfor sir ben ainslie after sirjim ratcliffe sacks him as skipper of ineos brittaniang. storm eowyn has battered the uk and ireland with winds of over 110 miles an hour. more than one million people are without power and one man has died in ireland after a tree fell on his car. schools and offices have been closed and there's been severe disruption to transport — with one in five flights from airports cancelled. scotrail has said there will be no trains at all in scotland until at least midday tomorrow. the storm saw two rare red weather warnings — meaning a danger to life — for northern ireland and scotland. the final extreme warning was lifted within the last hour, but an amber warning for high winds still covers scotland, northern england and wales — and there's a yellow warning for large areas across the uk. in a moment we'll hear from our correspondents in the four nations, and chris fawkes will tell us just why the storm has been so powerful. but first to chris page in county mayo in the republic of ireland. well, the worst is over, but we are still feeling the

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