Traffic infrastructure in Killarney has fallen far behind the “industry-led” tourism business and chronic congestion is now threatening the tourism potential of the entire south-west region, a delegation from the town’s business and hotel organisations has told a council meeting.

The volume of traffic on national roads rose by 6% last year, with the M50 the country’s busiest road and the South Ring Road the most heavily used in Cork.

The King of Pop kicked off the first of his two concerts on July 31, 1988 - which fell as August bank holiday weekend that year.

The native of Glanmire, Co Cork, is, with his 1000 Beasts project, regarded as one of the brightest prospects in Irish pop.

We’ve grown up with thick skin from years of being subjected to Kerryman jokes and to be honest, no one loves a Kerry dig more than we do.

County councillors representing north-west Cork have reacted angrily to the redrawing of electoral areas by the Local Electoral Boundary Commission, with a senior council official saying the fall-out from it “will present challenges” to the local authority.

There will be just 8,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on Ireland’s roads by 2020, less than half of the Government’s repeatedly revised target.

Contractors for one of the most complex roads projects ever undertaken in this country could be appointed within weeks.

There is no legal bar to publicans obtaining late-night licence extensions, allowing them to serve drinks into the early hours on Good Friday, the president of the Circuit Court, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, has ruled.

A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the city centre will look dramatically different in 20 years to what it does now.

There are plans to expand the Local Link bus network to include a new night service.

Commuters in Dublin are facing travel disruptions this morning.

Extensive fibreoptic cables are to be laid down in advance of the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange to give motorists real-time information on the project.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has said it is difficult to justify the existence of rail lines which lose hundreds of euro per fare.

Ross either has to commit huge sums of money in order to fix the rail network or cut his losses and start closing some stations and routes, writes Daniel McConnell

Seven people were injured yesterday after a sightseeing bus collided with a Luas tram in Dublin city centre.

Once he was on Jim McGuinness’s wedding invite list. Now he’s on Jim’s blacklist. And his own club’s list of suspended members. 

With news that the Cork Film Festival is shy €200,000 in funding despite the €2.5m it pulls in for the local economy, Clodagh Finn wonders if arts is unwisely being pushed to one side by the incoming government

It is ironic that the city of Dublin is guarded by an alleged mad cow. for those approaching the capital from the South and Mid West.

Leinster GAA chief John Horan has given the strongest indication yet that a new stadium will be built close to Dublin’s M50 motorway, suggesting ground could be broken on the project within five years.

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the Web Summit, at Ireland’s self-deprecation, and why we are losing much more than just an event on the calendar.

A man's been rushed to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, after being knocked down by a Luas tram.

The Dalata Hotel Group has reached agreement to buy nine of the hotels in the Moran-Bewley Hotel business for €455m.

A group of property fund investors are meeting today to put together a legal challenge to try and recoup some of the estimated €300m that was invested in five Belfry funds during the boom years.

Ireland’s newest political party has already suffered the oldest curse of Irish politics — the split.

A woman has died following a road crash on the M50 in Dublin last night.

Once considered a quiet outpost on the fringes of the popular tourist haunt of Cashel, recent years have seen New Inn become a magnet for burglars, and now locals fear the situation will worsen with the imminent closure of its Garda station.

Gardaí and emergency services are at the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on the M50.

Campaigners against the property tax have vowed to fight plans by Revenue to collect the levy, despite the revelation that tax collectors will value homes of owners liable for the charge.

A father of two has been jailed after he was captured on CCTV footage taking €250,000 from an AIB employee who had been forced by 'tiger' kidnappers to steal the cash from his workplace.

Many emigrating Irish families are often split up for months at a time as one parent heads to the destination country to organise the move.

I have some advice for Anthony Daly this Monday morning.

A woman in her 30s is in a serious condition in hospital this morning, after being struck by a LUAS tram in Dublin last night.

In Dublin, a woman in her thirties has been struck by a LUAS tram.

Anthony Daly (pictured, left) said he couldn’t imagine Dublin being any worse than they were against Kilkenny on Saturday.

Irish construction firm SIAC has a full menu of projects in the pipeline, having just completed the re-development of London’s iconic Leicester Square.

Last year Kieran Connery only had Thomas O’Gorman for company on those midweek dashes down the M9 from Dublin to training in Carriganore outside Waterford city.

Before her fight this morning she would have read the same Bible verses and listened to the same Christian songs on her iPod

A woman who stabbed a doorman after watching her sister perform at a 'Dublin’s Got Talent' competition has been ordered to pay compensation to the victim.

A number of traffic incidents are causing delays for motorists around Dublin this morning.

THE highlight of my career has to be the 1995 All Ireland Hurling final win for Clare.

Punters driving down to the Oxegen festival from Dublin are being warned that traffic is still heavy on the N7 Naas Road outbound from the Red Cow Interchange to Newlands Cross.