The Spanish Prime Minister insists that emergency protocols were successful following a huge power cut across the country.
Pedro Sanchez says that things are 99% back to normal following one of the worst blackouts in history.
Spain and Portugal switched their power back on though authorities offered little explanation for what had caused it or how they would prevent it from happening again.
Traffic lights were back on, train and metro services slowly returned and schools reopened. Commuters battled with delays to get back to work after an outage that had left people stranded in lifts and cut off from phone contact with their families.
Jason Campbell from Skerries, is out in Murcia on holidays with his family. He spoke to the Classic Hits Radio Newsroom today:
'We were over in Mercia yesterday when the power outage happened. People in our apartment block got stuck in lifts. It was a very, very scary experience.'
He went on to outline the importance of cash:
"I suppose the main call-outs really are that cash is King. All the ATMs stopped working, any shops that were open, only accepted cash. Card payments were down, electricity, internet
water services were all gone for about 11 hours. It took a few hours for internet to be restored fully. A real eye opener."
He said that he and his family were worried that they may end up stranded abroad:
"From a holiday perspective, planning on how to get home, whether flights were going to be available and so on. Word filtered through that the power outage could last anything between
ten hours and potentially even up to 10 days. So yeah, it was a very, very scary time, I have to say."
Andy Corbett, originally from Limerick but living and working near Alicante spoke to the newsroom about his experience and how they found out about the severity of the situation:
"I was working away at about 12.00 yesterday afternoon, and all of a sudden the power went out. We thought we had a tripped switch or something. We then found out it was the whole area. And then an hour later, we were getting reports that it was further afield, that it was the entire country. We heard that it was all of Germany as well, all of France, some of Italy, some of Portugal. So, there were all these rumours flying around, but we just plodded on."
Andy went on to tell us how the hospitality business that he works for managed with no power:
'Well we went back to the 1990s in hospitality with pens and paper and shouting orders into kitchens. We did cold meat sandwiches and salads for customers and we served the beer up until
we could, it stayed cold for a good few hours afterwards and then we got our power back around seven o'clock, so things were able to operate as normal from then."
Despite the situation, Andy said that it was actually a great day for the punters at the Stray Sod in Campoamor:
"It was a great day for the pub because everyone was on holidays, stuck in their apartments with no electric and no Wi-Fi, so they all came down to the pub. It turned out to be a great afternoon in the end."
Although there has been no explanation given for the power outage, a cyber attack has been ruled out.
