Met Eireann has downgraded the weather alert to status yellow as Storm Brendan winds down in parts of the country.
The orange wind warning for Wexford, Cavan, Monaghan Roscommon, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford has now been downgraded to status yellow.
This will be in place until 23.59 tonight.
An orange alert is still in place for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo until 8pm.
However the forecaster has warned that there is still a significant risk of coastal flooding with gusts expected to reach 100 to 130km\h in the status orange counties.
The Orange weather warning in place for Connacht, Kerry and Donegal came into effect this morning at 5am with a further Orange wind warning for the rest of the country beginning at 8am today.
Met Eireann said: "Storm Brendan will bring extreme winds and heavy rain today. Status Orange weather warnings in force for all counties with status Red warnings in operation for marine areas.
"Winds may reach stronger levels locally and for limited time periods. Gale force southerly winds will extend countrywide during the morning, with severe and damaging gusts."
And a Status Red marine warning with gale force southerly winds are set to develop this morning on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea.
Meanwhile Met Eireann's head of forecasting Evelyn Cusack earlier pleaded with the public not to share fake weather charts and warnings.
She said: "Could I ask people to stop tweeting fake weather warnings and fake weather charts, there's some really crazy stuff out there and it's very irresponsible".
