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The power station at Laharn on the Listowel Road. Photo: Google Images
AN explosion at a power station on the outskirts of Tralee caused the major power outage across the county this morning.
About 50,000 people around the county in Tralee, Killarney, Dingle, west Kerry and south Kerry were without power from just after 9am. The ESB are carrying out a full investigation into what happened at the transmission station in Laharn on the Listowel Road.
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No one was injured in the explosion. Work is ongoing to repair the equipment but power was restored in most homes around the county by 11am.
