Tools were taken from both vehicles which were parked outside a local hotel in Mullingar.

It comes as An Garda Síochána conducts an extensive Roads Policing Operation over the St Brigid's Bank Holiday weekend, which will continue until 7am on Tuesday.

The protected animal was shot at Lough Owel and discovered in early December.

Local hospitals have been seeing a massive spike in people attending with flu and other respiratory conditions over the winter period.

Nationally, 700 patients are on trolleys as of this morning with over 100 waiting for a bed in University Hospital Limerick.

The data provides a breakdown of the total amount of patients waiting on trolleys and in wards in hospitals across the country.

The new plans lodged towards the end of 2024 make a number of revisions and are now before the higher planning authority again.

A man in his 30s is in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin after being attacked on Grove Street in Mullingar in the early hours of Saturday morning.