Longford-Westmeath TD Micheál Carrigy raised the issue - saying Ireland has one of the highest rates of sarcoidosis.

Nationally, University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded in June.

The announcement was made by the Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary.

Minister for Housing James Browne and Minister of State John Cummins proposals will look to ease some planning restrictions.

Daniel Taylor from Ballinamore died following a single vehicle collision last Thursday morning.

It's part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Drinking Water Quality in Public Supplies publication.

The unit was promised for Roscommon University Hospital over a decade a ago, but never progressed.

Ballygar has been been without a street access ATM since 2021.