The US President says the trade measure will help to make America wealthy again but Irish officials say they're disappointed with the announcement.

€11,400 has been allocated for the Carrowbehy/Cahir Bog Walk in west Roscommon.

The scheme involves the state and homeowners jointly paying for the upgrade of small roads and laneways.

Longford-Westmeath TD Sorca Clarke raised the case in the Dáil yesterday.

Councillor Maeve Reynolds, from Fine Gael, says a new footbridge is the only acceptable solution.

Senator Gareth Scahill says the HSE recently told him four Roscommon dentists provide a service for medical-card holders.

The figures have been released in a reply by the HSE to a parliamentary question by local Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny.

Former councillor Michael McGreal, from Ballinlough, Castleplunkett's Ruth Connolly-Conboy, Ballintubber's Maria McCahill and Roscommon town's Robbie McConn are in the hat.