The much-loved Strokestown man was struck by a car on Earl Street on Tuesday morning and was critically injured.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

The IFTA award winner also played the character of Bernie in the movie 'Lakelands,' which was shot in Granard.

The star settled in Roscommon a few years ago, where he lived with his wife, Kara Doherty, daughter of the late Fianna Fáil TD Seán Doherty.

Sinn Féin Councillor Cormac Flynn is set to raise the issue at Tuesday's Leitrim County Council meeting.

The event is being hosted by the Hanley family on their lands at Lissaneaville.

It's the first increase by the energy supplier in the past three years.

Independent Councillors James Gilmartin and Irene Guckian Rabbitte are bringing motion's on the issue to next weeks Leitrim County Council meeting.