Fireworks set curtains ablaze and the fire had to be extinguished by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.

Work is underway to establish how a redress scheme for survivors would work.

It is advised that swimming or partaking in water sports activities may cause serious illness.

The single-vehicle incident, involving a truck, happened in Ballinderry in Enfield at around 5am yesterday.

Both Cavan and Monaghan along with 12 other counties will come under a yellow warning for high temperatures from midday.

Val served as Chief Fire Officer for County Cavan with great distinction from April 1972 until October 1998.

Local Sinn Féin Senator, Pauline Tully, highlighted the plight of a Cavan student who emailed her over the week.