The event will take place in PV's in Longford from 1 to 4 pm this afternoon.

Earlier this week, the Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon confirmed the details.

This free collection day commenced at Castlerea Civic Amenity Site at 9am and runs until 1pm.

A post-mortem examination on 17-year-old Vadym Davydenko's body has been completed.

Met Éireann has issued a status yellow rain warning for tomorrow and Sunday for southern counties.

It comes as over 150 submissions were made against a planned development in Roscommon.

A parliamentary question revealed there are 111 derelict properties in the constituency.

The Central Statistics Office provided a breakdown of the mean price of homes and the amount of houses sold so far per residential area.