Strokestown native Donal Hanly first started using cocaine in his late 20s.

Ballyfeeney Green Energy Ltd have applied for permission to construct six turbines between Scramogue and Kilglass.

Inspectors, however, raised concerns about the centre's safeguarding practices.

It got planning permission last year and recently got over half a million euro of state funding.

Just over 44 and a half thousand euro will see the installation of a roof cover over the existing amphitheatre.

That's according to the President of the Longford Chamber of Commerce Fulton Grant.

It's the latest path for cyclists and walkers planned for the region.

Court sittings stopped being heard there in 2011, and it's been vacant ever since.