Actor Simon O’Droscoll, who played Paul and Nicola’s son Oisin in Fair City, as well as Veronica Guerin’s son Cathal in the Veronica Guerin movie, has left acting to become a Garda.

The actress said she and her husband will be moving to Co Wicklow.

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"