Emergency services are dealing with a fire in a retail unit in Carlow town.

Around seven or eight units of the fire brigade responded to the incident, according to reports from KCLR.

The fire is understood to have broken out in a premises above the 'Carry Out' off license on Barrack Street.

Road closures are in place as units of Carlow, Bagenalstown and Tullow Fire Service continue to battle the blaze.