Among those casting their vote today was a sprightly centenarian from county Meath.

Issues included dead rats in a dry goods storeroom, rodent paw marks on dusty shelves and gnaw marks on coffee bean bags.

A woman has been handed an 18-month prison sentence for helping to dispose of her husband's body in Co. Westmeath in 1987.

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with an incident in which guns were allegedly test fired in the back garden of a house in Dublin last week.

A man in his 40s has died following a crash in Co Meath.