THERE are inmates of the Irish prison system who have been incarcerated for most of their lives.

The family of a man who was gunned down outside his home in a contract killing 13 years ago has been awarded more than €750,000 damages by the High Court.

A woman whose husband was gunned down outside their family home has launched an action for damages over his murder.

Some €115m will be invested in up to 20 new primary care centres.

THE mortality rate among heart patients who attend Roscommon Hospital is four times higher than the rate among patients attending University Hospital Galway, the health minister claimed last night.

A post mortem examination is expected to be carried out today on the body of an elderly man found dead in his Roscommon home.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has described today as "the people's day" and says as many voters as possible should exercise their democratic right.

Marts: Four AIBP factories are among 10 plants countrywide which have increased prices by up to 3c/kg (1p/lb) as the intake at the factories tightens further.

Marts: The overall trend in beef prices continued upwards at the factories with further gains of just under 2 cent/kg in the average for R4L bullocks for last week which brought the average paid to just over 105p/lb.

The underlying trend in beef prices at the factories showed further weakening in farmer pay sheet returns last week, although producer resistance is limiting the scale of price decline.

Gardaí have named the first of the four people killed on the roads this weekend as 54-year-old Maura Daffey from Lismugh.

Gardaí in Co Roscommon are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 42-year-old man, whose body was found in Ballaghadereen this morning.

Marts: Bullock prices averaged over 100p/lb for R3s at the factories last week, the first time in years for the benchmark price to be paid to producers countrywide, as returns to beef farmers continue to edge upwards with half the processors paying over 101p/lb average.

Four Roscommon County Council staff have been suspended, pending the outcome of an investigation into alleged irregularities at Ballaghadereen dump.

FOUR people died in separate car accidents within the space of 12 hours in another weekend of road carnage.

The names of the six victims of road accidents yesterday have been released.

Gardaí in Co Roscommon have arrested two men following a high-speed car chase in the county this morning.

THERE was further slight slippage in the prices paid by factories to producers for beef last week with the averages down by around 0.5p/lb to 1p/lb and the fall registering across the scale of grades and factories from the highest paying to the weakest payers.

The Competition Authority has said it is continuing to monitor farmers' pickets at meat factories throughout the country.

Angry farmers are due to resume their pickets of meat plants throughout Ireland this evening in protest at the price being paid for cattle.

LIMERICK is surely a lady as the Shannonside anthem proudly proclaims, but it took a filly from Clare to take the equine version of the title at the two day show held over the weekend at the region’s new racecourse near Patrickswell.

A Co Roscommon who died in a boating accident in the Balearic Island of Ibiza has been named.

A Co Roscommon man has died following a boating accident on the Spanish island of Ibiza.

Drivers travelling between Dublin and the west of Ireland are likely to

Drivers travelling between Dublin and the West of Ireland will face disruption over the weekend because of a major protest demonstration that has been organised by the Western Roads Action Committee.

A man has died in an industrial accident in Co Roscommon.