However in a statement, Met Éireann said that it is not possible to quantify the exact timing, nor the strength of intensity of the wind and rain, until later in the weekend.
It said: "Ophelia won't be a hurricane in meteorological terms when it reaches our part of the world as she will have moved over the cooler waters of the mid-Atlantic and undergone what is known as extra-tropical transition.
"So while there could be the threat of wind gusts reaching hurricane force or indeed heavy rainfall with this system, it means the traditional attributes of a hurricane - such as an eye or an eye-wall containing a core of hurricane force winds - are very unlikely to be present."
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