It's understood up to 14 cases of Covid cases could be linked to the Delta variant following socialising in Athlone earlier this month.

Six in ten lone parents say they feel lonely all or most of the time

The connection points are part of the rollout stages of the National Broadband Plan targeting areas traditionally not serviced by internet providers.

Members of the public and community groups will have four weeks to send submissions over the plan to Longford County Council.

The HSE was informed over the weekend of a cluster of Covid cases slinked to people mixing outdoors on Friday, June 11th.

The 65-year-old suffered died following a violent incident on Sunday night

Barristers for the accused are challenging the admissibility of the CCTV evidence