The Coast Guard's 118 Rescue helicopter, based at Strandhill in Sligo, was dispatched to the scene.

Castlerea’s Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has moved to within 7,000 votes of the quota.

The forest fire spread through a number of forestry plantations. 

In many cases the delay in physical discharge was the result of a lack of step down beds or care facility openings.

It's reported he threatened passers-by at the university, before being apprehended by Gardaí at around 2 o'clock this afternoon.

The woman is the 8th person to die on Ireland's roads already this year.

The An Taisce report for Carrick on Shannon gave the town top marks for over half of the sites surveyed, with no heavily littered spots identified.

The commission flagged just one area of moderate concern in the area of residents' personal property and possessions following the announced inspection last June.