Gold rose close to a record high after US President Donald Trump signaled a less aggressive approach to China, weakening the dollar.

Gold prices climbed over 1% on Friday, closing in on its all-time-high hit in October, as a weakening dollar on U.S. President Donald Trump's push for lower rates and tariff uncertainty drove the metal towards its fourth straight weekly rise.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.