:00:00. > :00:18.Good evening. Wales has been the BBC News channel. We
:00:19. > :00:23.Good evening. Wales has been battered by gale force winds. Around
:00:24. > :00:29.26,000 homes are still cut off tonight in South, mid and West
:00:30. > :00:36.Wales. Once again, coastlines around Wales, hit by huge waves. I wouldn't
:00:37. > :00:40.have in bettering this area all afternoon. It has been so strong
:00:41. > :00:46.here, people have been advised to keep a safe distance from the
:00:47. > :00:52.seafront. Gusts of wind reached up to 80 mph. But that didn't stop
:00:53. > :00:55.people coming to take in the views. Rougher than I thought it would be.
:00:56. > :01:02.Even when you're standing in it, the force of it is quite powerful. It's
:01:03. > :01:06.so unprecedented to get this top of whether for this long. Although you
:01:07. > :01:11.see it on television, until you experience it safely, you don't
:01:12. > :01:20.really appreciate how devastating it can be. Similar scenes in
:01:21. > :01:24.Aberystwyth. Disruption, too, on our roads, and overturned lorry has
:01:25. > :01:31.meant the M4 on both erections has been closed between junctions 41 and
:01:32. > :01:40.42. The wind also caused around 15,000 homes in mid Wales to be
:01:41. > :01:50.without power. Gales are expected to continue tonight, but things should
:01:51. > :01:53.improve tomorrow. The future of three leisure sites in
:01:54. > :01:56.Denbighshire remains in doubt this evening. Clwyd Leisure says it's
:01:57. > :02:00.closing the Rhyl Sun Centre, the Nova Centre and the Indoor Bowls
:02:01. > :02:02.Centre in Prestatyn, due to a lack of funding from Denbighshire
:02:03. > :02:06.Council. More than 100 workers could lose their jobs. The council will
:02:07. > :02:09.decide in the next few weeks whether they can be reopened. Wales have
:02:10. > :02:12.suffered a huge setback in their quest to win three consecutive Six
:02:13. > :02:16.Nations titles. They were comprehensively beaten by Ireland in
:02:17. > :02:20.Dublin by 26-3. Warren Gatland says it's one of the worst performances
:02:21. > :02:31.since he's been coach. Here's our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter.
:02:32. > :02:33.Wales arrived in Dublin with reasons to be confident. They hadn't lost an
:02:34. > :02:39.away match in the 6-nation since 2011. But they were second best
:02:40. > :02:42.since the start. Their line-out and scrum looked shaky. I'm forced
:02:43. > :02:51.errors and needless penalties killed their momentum. Jonathan Sexton took
:02:52. > :02:53.advantage with the boot, in a Masters class -- masterclass. He
:02:54. > :02:58.pinned Wales into the corner and from the resulting line-out, Chris
:02:59. > :03:03.Henry was driven over for a 13-0 half-time lead. Leigh Halfpenny got
:03:04. > :03:07.Wales on the scoreboard with a penalty but his fifth cap was not
:03:08. > :03:13.one to remember as Wales were hassled into more mistakes -- 50th
:03:14. > :03:17.cap. With two minutes to go, Ireland completed the demolition as
:03:18. > :03:24.replacement Paddy Jackson crossed to win the match 26-3. Probably one of
:03:25. > :03:29.the worst performances since I have been involved. There are no excuses,
:03:30. > :03:34.Ireland thoroughly outplayed us, they deserved to win, our
:03:35. > :03:38.performance just wasn't good enough. This was not a performance of a side
:03:39. > :03:41.on course for the title but as last year proved, one defeat doesn't
:03:42. > :03:49.necessarily mean championship has gone. Swansea City are closing in on
:03:50. > :03:54.victory against Cardiff City. With a quarter of an hour left, they are
:03:55. > :03:58.leading 2-0. Routledge opened the scoring in the second half. The
:03:59. > :04:04.Bluebirds came close to equalising moments later. Bellamy hit the bar,
:04:05. > :04:11.but in the last few seconds, Nathan Dyer has scored a second full swing
:04:12. > :04:14.too. -- for Swansea. Time for the weather.
:04:15. > :04:22.We have seen some very unpleasant weather conditions across Wales and
:04:23. > :04:28.I'm afraid the story stays the same tonight. Gale force winds and very
:04:29. > :04:32.heavy rain. We have this amber warning the strong winds across the
:04:33. > :04:37.south coast, just to reconditioned wherever you are. The West Coast and
:04:38. > :04:43.Northwest are seeing strong winds as well. More in the way of rain
:04:44. > :04:49.pushing in from the west tomorrow morning. A little drier in North
:04:50. > :04:57.Wales, some of the showers are turning wintry on higher ground.
:04:58. > :05:01.Monday will be a little drier but still windy. The next area of
:05:02. > :05:02.low-pressure introduces further, very heavy rain and strong winds on
:05:03. > :05:17.Tuesday. Good evening. Unfortunately I don't
:05:18. > :05:21.have much good news in this forecast. There may be a brief
:05:22. > :05:24.respite later tomorrow with the wind and the rain but it will not be long
:05:25. > :05:29.enough and we have today's storm withers, pounding many coastlines in
:05:30. > :05:34.the south and west, hence the Amber wind warning from the Met Office. It
:05:35. > :05:36.is a windy day across the board and it is not just the wind