A house in Waterford was struck by lightning after Met Eireann issued a weather warning for "hazardous" thunderstorms.
Located on Farmleigh, on the Dunmore Road, the house fell victim to a storm that occurred over the city at around 10pm on Tuesday night.
The home was badly damaged as photographs show a significant amount of debris from the incident.
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A man from the neighbouring house described what happened as he waited for the rain to subside before entering his home.
“There was torrential I mean like monsoon rain type rain falling so we just sat in the car waiting for the rain to subside so we could go into our house and next thing, wallop, huge bang everywhere was totally white for what felt like 5 or 10 seconds, our ears were ringing there were bricks and mortar and bits of the house blown all over the place wood, tiles the whole lot," he told the Irish Mirror.
He described the damage he saw in the house itself.
“We went into the house that was struck by lightning, there’s a lady who lives there who was down in the kitchen when it happened," he said.
"The lightning bolt came in through her bathroom through the roof and blew the shower off the wall and did a lot of damage. There was scorch marks in there.”
Emergency services were called to the scene but it is understood nobody was injured in the freak incident.
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