“He overtook me, driving on the pavement. I can still see the bodies flying everywhere.“

The have-a-go hero French motorcyclist who tried to stop the truck massacre in Nice last week has revealed he was “ready to die” as he punched the driver while clinging to the door of the speeding vehicle.

Authorities in Nice have refused a request from French anti-terror police to delete surveillance camera images of last week's deadly truck attack.

Five suspects have been charged over the Nice beachfront truck attack that killed 84 people.

Enda Kenny’s negotiating position in the Brexit talks has been strengthened after French president François Hollande said Ireland was in a “special situation” following Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

A defiant Françoise Hollande has called on French citizens and Europe to stand together in the wake of terrorist attacks to protect freedom, as he thanked Ireland for its solidarity, writes Juno McEnroe. 

Many lone attackers share information on their plans prior to the attack, which gives hope that their family or friends will tell the authorities, writes Cormac O’Keeffe            

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will hold talks today with French president Francois Hollande less than a week on from the Nice terror atrocity.

All 84 people killed in the Nice truck attack on Bastille Day have now been formally identified.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has admitted “no defence can guarantee absolute safety” after last week’s terrorist attack in Nice which led to the deaths of 84 people.

The UK's press regulator has received more than 300 complaints about remarks by The Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie criticising Channel 4 News for using a journalist wearing a hijab to present a report on the Nice massacre.

When the BBC's 'First Night of the Proms' kicked off this week the audience gave a standing ovation as the BBC Symphony Orchestra began their performance at the Royal Albert Hall with La Marseillaise as a tribute to the victims of the Nice terror attack.

Crowds jeered the French prime minister as he joined other officials in Nice to remember victims killed during the lorry rampage on the city’s promenade.

France has marked a national moment of silence in memory of the 84 people killed in the Nice truck attack, as thousands of people massed on the city's waterfront promenade.

France has held a minute's silence as they remember the victims of last week's attack in Nice.

Investigators have found no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to "terrorist networks", France's interior minister has said.

France has begun its third day of national mourning as tributes to victims of the Nice lorry attack grow and investigations into their killer continues.

The tenth attack on home soil has moved French authorities to consider a major security overhaul, writes Aki Peritz

The Nice killer was one of many terrorist recruits who were petty criminals, with little interest in Islam, a leading expert has said.

Muslims in France are angry that a mass killer’s actions are now claimed to have been in the name of Islam, and concerned that it will stoke a racist backlash, writes Jack Moore

Detectives investigating the Bastille Day lorry attack have arrested two further people, as tourists return to the French promenade where scores of people were mown down.

The head imam of the Islamic Centre of Ireland said he is shocked and appalled by the attack in Nice, but that as a society we must reflect deeply on its causes.

A man lost six members of his family in the horrific lorry massacre in Nice, French media reported.

The father of the driver in the Nice lorry massacre said his son had undergone psychiatric treatment in the past.

Update 3.25pm: The French Interior Minister has said the man responsible for the attack in Nice had been radicalised very recently.

The man responsible for the Nice terror attack is “probably linked to radical Islam” as France mourns the third massacre of its civilians in 18 months.

LAST March, in Brussels, it was airline passengers, commuters, and the very institutions of the European Union, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Described by his neighbours as a handsome but frightening man, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed at least 84 people in the French city of Nice by driving his truck into a crowd late on Thursday, was convicted only once before: for road rage.

French president, Francois Hollande, has extended the nine-month-old state of emergency. He has also vowed to deploy thousands of police reservists on the streets, after 84 pedestrians leaving a fireworks display were killed by a truck driven by a terrorist.

The Bastille day fireworks had just ended when a large white truck drove fast and deliberately at the crowd on the Nice waterfront.

The latest terrorist atrocity in France, where 84 people were killed on Thursday night during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern city of Nice, is the seventh deadly attack to be carried out against the country since the Charlie Hebdo killings of January 7, 2015, bringing the total death toll to 400. 

Former tánaiste Ray MacSharry has described the horror of being caught up in the terror attack in the French city of Nice and of seeing dead bodies among the chaotic scenes along the seafront.

The French ambassador to Ireland, Jean-Pierre Thébault has described the terror attack in Nice as an assault on the value of freedom.

A student from Limerick has told how she witnessed the shocking events in Nice.

A number of Irish people were witness to the carnage in Nice. One of them, barman Robert Greene from Coolock in Dublin, was just a few metres away as he watched the truck driver plough through the crowds on the Promenade des Anglais.

French prime minister Manuel Valls said the man who drove a lorry through crowds of revellers in Nice, killing 84 people, is a "terrorist linked to radical Islam".

Security has become the key issue after two very different events in the space of a few hours.