Number of Kilkenny city businesses not opening today due to ESB outage

UPDATE the power stayed on – stay tuned for more. 

Earlier story:

A number of Kilkenny city businesses will keep their doors closed today.

It’s due to a planned ESB outage which will generally affect part of St Kieran Street and some in the Market Yard area.

Works by the utility will run from 9am to 4pm.

Among those not opening are Belle Femme Lingerie.

While Nigel Kenny of Hair by Nigel earlier this week outlined the plight on The KCLR Daily;