Nine days after the opening of the iconic Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, BAM took the decision to close it during Storm Ciara.

Matthew Martin from Met Éireann says the wintry conditions will continue through the evening and into tomorrow.

There has been a major collision on the Naas Road this morning.

Motorists are being urged to exercise extreme caution in Leinster and Munster as snow and sleet falls across Ireland this evening.

A jack-knifed truck has blocked the M7 Limerick to Dublin motorway just outside Limerick.

Emergency services were called to deal with the fire, which has now been dealt with.

Dublin's M50 motorway accounted for the highest number of collisions reported to AA Roadwatch last month.

It won’t prompt an update from the AA Roadwatch team but the steady traffic of players switching provinces will continue this summer on the back of IRFU performance director David Nucifora’s vision to maximise the playing pool.

Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene.

No serious injuries are reported.

Frost and ice has affected many parts of the country overnight.

Met Éireann has extended its weather warning countrywide, with temperatures well below freezing and icy conditions set to continue for the weekend.

This week on Stating The Bleeding Obvious, it has come to my attention that podcasts are mighty yokes altogether.

Update 16.53pm: Three people have been taken to hospital after a serious crash on the South Quays in Dublin.

Latest: A nationwide status orange fog warning has been lifted.

One man has been taken to hospital following a seven car pile-up in Wicklow.

UpdateTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that pay rises for rail workers should wait until investment is made to the fleet and infrastructure.

Around 2,000 customers are without power following lightning strikes.

Update 10.47am: The Dublin Port Tunnel has now fully reopened both ways following a truck fire.

Commuters in Dublin are facing travel disruption again today as cross city works continue on the Luas.

Latest: An army bomb disposal have made safe an explosive device found underneath Thomond Bridge, in Limerick, earlier today.

A motorist has had a lucky escape after their car burst into flames on the M7 Limerick to Dublin Road this morning.

TRANSPORT Minister Shane Ross has acknowledged that a reduction in garda surveillance and checkpoints “probably is one of the reasons” why there has been an increase in road deaths this year.

AA Roadwatch's Doireann Garrihy has five essential nuggets of advice that you really do need to know before you get motoring

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

An ambulance and a car have collided on the N21 Limerick Tralee Road.

A spectacular tree-lined avenue which provided one of the backdrops for the hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen victim to Storm Gertrude.

Latest: According to AA Roadwatch, traffic lights are no longer malfunctioning in “a number of areas” in the Dublin city.

It seems the whole country had to endure terrible road conditions this morning.

Motorists have been warned to take extra care on the roads as the first icy stretches appeared yesterday, causing a number of accidents.

Drivers are being warned to take extra care on the roads following freezing temperatures overnight.

Gardaí are planning a major clampdown on speeding this weekend in a bid to reduce the amount of fatalities on the roads during the lethal summer period.

A suspect device has been discovered in north inner-city Dublin today.

March, as the saying goes, suddenly came ‘in a like a lion’ but whether it will go ‘out like a lamb’ is too early to guess, even for our most experienced forecasters. 

Three weather warnings are in effect across the country this morning.

Gardaí in Dublin say a fire near the Clarehall Road has gone out.

At least one person is understood to have died in a 30-car motorway pile-up in fog in England this morning.

Met Éireann has issued an orange fog warning.

AA Roadwatch has said that driving conditions remain difficult in many areas.

Met Éireann has issued a status yellow fog warning for Leinster, Cavan and Monaghan.

Met Éireann has issued a low temperature warning for Ireland tonight.

There is a nationwide warning for snow and freezing temperatures over the next 24 hours.