The winner says she hopes to jet away to a sunnier destination to celebrate her windfall.

The road is currently closed and local diversions are in place. 

A statement from the local authority confirmed that there are a total of eight XL Bullies registered with the county's dog warden.

Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit conducted a planned search of a home in the Edgeworthstown on Saturday.

A number of trees have been down along the track recently however most have now been cleared.

There are still significant outages in Roscommon and Leitrim, but almost all are fixed in Longford.

Foigha Solar Farm Limited is seeking to build a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of 130 hectares.

They were originally detained at Longford Garda Station before appearing back at Longford District Court in the afternoon.