Storm Darragh: Trains cancelled and power cuts for thousands

Iain Slade of the Stiltskin theatre company and producer of Soapbox, said: “It’s terrible, we watched the small rip appear in the tent, and it just got bigger and bigger.

“The winds were too strong for us to do anything about it safely, so we had to leave the tent up and hope for the best.”

He said despite forecasts of the storm, it had been “too late” to take the tent down beforehand.

“It took four days to get all the infrastructure into the tent, and by the time we heard that the storm was coming, it was too late to take the tent down, because we would have to take everything out and lay the tent down on the ground,” he said.

“So we had to buckle up and hope for the best.”