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Acting chief fire officer with Westmeath Fire and Rescue Service Pat Hunt told local radio station Midlands 103FM that there have been several casualties in the incident.

A helicopter has crashed near Killucan, County Westmeath in the Republic of Ireland.

A separate red warning has been issued for counties Offaly and Westmeath from 05:00 until 07:00.

"She must have loved me so much," Maria said, as she mused on a treasured photograph which shows her on Philomena's knee at an institution for unmarried mothers in Castlepollard, County Westmeath.

The next record in the sequence is from the ledger book at Castlepollard "mother-and-baby home" in County Westmeath - where Philomena and Maria arrived in May 1954.