The assembly will comprise the chairperson plus 99 citizens randomly selected on the basis of being representative of the Irish electorate in terms of gender, age and regional spread.
The first item to be considered will be the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
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Gardaí requested help from the Army Bomb Disposal Team after a suspicious device was found at Blackmiller Hill this afternoon.
A safety cordon was put in place, a road was closed and some local residents were evacuated from their homes as a safety precaution.
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The footage shows the pair with an IS banner, as one of them speaks in Arabic and declared backing to the group's leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
Adel Kermiche (19) and Abdelmalik Petitjean, believed to be 20, stormed a Normandy church during morning mass on Tuesday and then slit Father Jacques Hamel's throat at his altar.
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It follows the failed military coup in the country earlier this month.
CNN Turk is reporting that three news agencies, 23 radio stations and 15 journals have also been shut down.
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It comes after a federal judge ruled that John Hinckley Jr. was no longer a danger to himself or others.
Reagan was shot while leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel in the US capital in 1981.
Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the shooting, which wounded the former US president in the chest.
