There was a 100 per cent failure rate in Leitrim, with all four of the tanks tested not meeting standards.

Roscommon coroner’s court yesterday heard about the deaths of two people in a single-car crash over two years ago.

Two wards at the Ballinasloe Hospital have been affected by the norovirus outbreak.

The Grind in Castlerea says its last trading day will be this Saturday.

It was recently announced he would be leaving the west to become an Auxilary Bishop of Dublin. 

The Shannonside counties of Leitrim, Roscommon and Longford are among nine counties in Ireland that do not have one of these facilities.