With only 68 rentable houses listed on Daft.ie across the entire Shannonside Northern Sound region, students are increasingly troubled by the lack of available accomodation.

The CHO8 area, incorporating Roscommon currently has a 42% refusal rate, an increase from 35% last year.

Friday's CSO report outlined the number of apartment and housing unit planning permissions granted in the country per county this year.

The decisions for the proposed developments are due at the end of October.

Members of the organisation are protesting outside the Horse and Jockey hotel in Tipperary as they demand action from Fianna Fail politicians.

It comes as a recent National Transport Authority report outlines a local 24% decrease of taxis since the last decade.

County planners will decide on the application in October.

A man in his 20s was arrested this morning and released from custody, hours before the victim passed away.