The roof has blown off a South Dublin apartment block as storm-force winds batter the country.

Residents have been evacuated from the complex at Carrickmines Mannor off Glenamuck Road.

Gardai said no-one has been injured in the incident and emergency services are at the scene.

All traffic has also been stopped from entering the estate near the M50 junction.

Resident Dee Clarkin is at the scene  – she describes what happened.

“We had heard what sounded like a tree going through a car – it was the only way we could describe it…this huge big bang – but we weren’t too sure what it was” she said.

“The fire brigade called on the door and told us that everyone in the whole building was being evacuated”.

“We all just left the building and on our way out we realised that the entire roof – it wasn’t even a couple of slates – the entire roof had come off the next building and had been blown by the wind through the fence of the back of Carrickmines  Manor and into the next development” she added.