LIVE: Reports of accidents and jack-knifed truck in Tipperary following night of heavy snow

There are reports of several accidents and even a jack-knifed truck in Tipperary following a night of heavy snow on Saturday with power outages and treacherous road conditions across the Premier County. 

There are reports of an accident on the Barronstown Road and people are being asked to avoid the area. While cars are having difficulty getting up the hill at Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel. 

An ESB outage is affecting Glengoole, Ballynonty, Lanespark, Ballinure, Killenaule, parts of Ballingarry and parts of Mullinahone and crews are working to restore power. 

There are thousands without power right across the Premier County this Sunday morning with almost 700 people in the Thurles area without electricity. 

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Hundreds in Cashel too are impacted as well as almost 500 near Upperchurch because of a fault on the Cashel Road. 

An articulated truck jack-knifed in the early hours of Sunday morning at the Cordangan Cross turn off and the road was blocked. 

Roads around Cordangan Cross and the main Bansha Road are treacherous. One person trying to get to work in Bansha encountered up to nine firemen walking the road and rescuing and helping push cars back on to a track on the road. 

Meanwhile, there is a lorry stuck at a junction in Cashel at Brogan's pub and cars can't pass.

There are reports of trees down along the Bansha woods on the N24 on Sunday morning. 

Motorists are having great difficulty getting up Copper Hill. 

Due to the forecasted snow/ice event across Tipperary Saturday and Sunday, Tipperary County Council expects driving conditions to be very difficult across the county and across our entire road network.

In a statement, the local authority said: "The difficult driving conditions will include roads and routes salted under our winter salting programme.

"The effectiveness of this road salting in the weather condition forecasted in the coming 36 hours may be significantly reduced and motorists should consider all roads as if they are unsalted and drive at an appropriate speed to match the conditions."

A Status Orange snow and ice warning remains in place in Tipperary until 5pm on Sunday evening.