Heap had been diagnosed with Corticobasal Syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disease, last year.

RTÉ has had a spate of pest problems this year with rats and mice sighted in the creche, the main canteen, the wardrobe department, and even on the Fair City set

The death has been announced of Cork actor and television presenter and producer Frank Twomey, who was best known to people of a certain vintage as "the man from Bosco"