The protected hospital building - first known as the County Clare Lunatic Asylum - was completed in 1868 and continued later as Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital until 2002 and has been vacant and neglected since.

Rentokil recorded a 12 per cent increase in rat-related enquiries for the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same time last year.

Café Sol in Cornelscourt Shopping Centre in Foxrock, Co Dublin, was one of several businesses served with closure orders by food safety officers in September.