IT will cost Laois Co Council between €30,000 and €40,000 to remove illegally dumped rubbish and trees from an alleyway between two housing estates in Portlaoise.

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 Teeling Way complex, built around 20 years ago, located on East Road, in the East Wall area of the Capital, is run by Respond Housing Association.

A series of reports from the Office of Public Works (OPW) detail how the Áras was forced to call in exterminators on an almost monthly basis over the past year.