IRISH RAIL has confirmed that one of the semi-state’s senior managers has “stood aside from their position” as part of an ongoing investigation within the company.

NATIONAL Toll Roads is set to earn over €1 billion in revenue from its contract to operate the Westlink toll bridge on the M50 in Dublin up to 2020, even though it cost the company only €38 million to construct.

The Government is being accused of keeping bus and rail workers in the dark in relation to the news that the Minister for Transport is to dissolve CIE.

TAXPAYERS are footing a bill of around 1 million a year for foreign military aircraft using Irish airspace.