He said Fine Gael is committed to putting more money in people's pockets by cutting tax and USC, reducing childcare fees by 25% starting next year and by paying double child benefit at Christmas and extending the benefit to 18-yr-olds in full-time education.

Buildings across Ireland will be lit up in pink and blue to mark the occasion which falls at the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

Mr Reilly who has offices in Cavan, Bailieborough, Granard and Longford also said the workplace pension enrollment scheme which is due to start in January next year was an added burden on local small businesses.

17,000 premises across Cavan are included in the State's Intervention Area, which will see NBI deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabites per second.

Caoineadh Dúlra is a free public creative workshop with talks and live music performances across both days.

The permission obtained in recent days allows for the change of use to three apartments at 60 and 61 Dublin Street in the town.

Deputy Matt Carthy raised the recent incident were a young footballer with a fracture was left 3 hours on the pitch in Co Monaghan.