The outage was reported at around 1.30pm with the ESB hoping to restore power by 5pm this evening.

It was announced this week that BowelScreen will now include people from the age of 58.

University Hospital Limerick was the busiest in the country once again with 71 people on trolleys.

Thousands of people in the region were left without power for almost 3 weeks earlier this year following Storm Éowyn.

The new office will open on February 3rd next year.

A local councillor says students are being forced to attend schools as far away as Fermanagh.

In July, the HSE confirmed that high-risk mothers could no longer deliver their babies at the facility and were told to go to other units.

It comes as Minister Kevin Boxer Moran told Roscommon councillors yesterday that a planning application for a pipeline will be delayed until next year.