No one was injured in the incident and the adjacent property was undamaged.

It's part of a €8.7 million announcement by Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys this morning.

The latest MyHome.ie Property Price Report show increases in Leitrim and Longford while Roscommon prices remained steady.

The Rustic Inn in Abbeyshrule has lodged a planning application in recent days.

The Longford Divisional Drugs Unit and local Gardaí conducted a search of a premises in the town earlier this week under operation Tara.

The new local support service is a local branch of the well known national autism charity AS I AM.

Nationally, electric car sales are down nearly 26 per cent this year.

A Fine Gael councillor for close to 40 years, Adie was first co-opted to his father's seat after he passed away.