Justice Minister Helen McEntee will step into Cavan-Monaghan TD Heather Humphreys' former role.

There are expected to be power outages in Co Leitrim later today.

Drivers are advised to pay particular attention to motorbikes or vehicles veering across the road.

Storm Ashley updates across Longford, Leitrim and Roscommon

Met Éireann warns that Storm Ashley will bring very strong to gale force and gusty south to southwest winds, coupled with high spring tides.

It comes as Justice Minister Helen McEntee admitted the level of domestic abuse has tripled in the last 10 years to over 46 thousand cases.

The festival will be taking place from the 24th to the 28th of October.

Nationally, over 4,000 motor theft and related offences were reported in the first two quarters of the year.