Dr Anthony Beirne, from Annaduff, died in France on Sunday, June 22nd.

At their meeting this morning, councillors decided to keep the rate at +15 per cent for 2026 – the same as this year.

The pastor of Carrick Baptist Church, Josh Moore, was given planning permission for the change-of-use of the building.

The waiting in Roscommon is eight weeks, and it's nine weeks in Carrick-on-Shannon.

His funeral Mass will take place today in the Church of Saints Eithne and Fidelma, Tulsk, at 12 noon.

Corporal punishment was scrapped by then Education Minister John Boland in 1982.

Three cocaine-related inquests have been heard in Roscommon Coroner's Court in the past month alone.

Housing Minister James Browne says seven were refused in both Longford and Leitrim, and 13 in Roscommon.