Mnister Heather Humphreys will also open Monksland Innovation Hub in south Roscommon this afternoon.

Micheál Martin was visiting residents impacted by the flooding in Ballagh, Rahara and Curraghboy today.

The €2.6 million project is one of four pathfinder projects in the town that are part of Active Travel measures.

A Mass to celebrate his Golden Jubilee takes place on Friday, June 21st, at 7.30pm in St Joseph's Church in the north Roscommon town.

The government committed to the unit in 2011 after Roscommon Hospital's A&E closed and funding was approved four years later.

His funeral Mass is taking place tomorrow in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Fairymount, at 12 noon, with burial afterwards to Fairymount Cemetery.

There was speculation Peter Casey had asked to leave the debate during the ad break but this is something he denies.

The HSE community nursing unit will be based on the Leitrim Road just outside Carrick.