When infrastructure requires the sacrifice of communities it seems only better-off areas with political connections can stand up to projects, writes Michael Clifford.

Renters in Dublin are paying an extra €3,000 per year to live near the Luas network compared to average rents in other parts of the city.

Investment in infrastructure is bearing fruit in the form of rural regeneration, jobs growth, house building, and capital projects, to ensure balanced regional development, says Pascal Donohoe.

House prices close to Dart stations and Luas stops in Dublin are now €129,000 higher than average prices in the city, a new survey has found.

Free rent won't solve the problem for people whose homes will be demolished to make way for the MetroLink in Dublin.

The cost of the long-awaited MetroLink project could be substantially higher than the original €3bn figure.

A privately-funded rapid transport network is being proposed for Dublin. Jed van de Poll, Dublin Metro CEO, explains an alternative to the Government-supported project Metrolink Metro Dublin has a grand vision for the capital city’s public transport.

Local Fianna Fáil Councillor Paul McAuliffe says he's concerned the National Transport Authority wants to take over a large part of the site for MetroLink works.

Shane O’Donnell will miss most, if not all, of Clare’s 2019 Allianz Hurling League Division 1A campaign after he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the prestigious Harvard University.

Wildfires burned out of control on Saturday in mountains north of Los Angeles and near Big Sur on California's scenic Central Coast, threatening some 1,300 homes, authorities said.

Three carriages of a Southern California Metrolink commuter train have derailed after a collision with a truck on tracks in Ventura County, north west of Los Angeles.

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Several more bodies remain in the wreckage of a crashed commuter train, in addition to the 18 confirmed deaths already announced, a Los Angeles County coroner’s official said today.

Los Angeles fire officials say at least 17 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.

A suicidal man said to have parked his Jeep in the path of a commuter train, causing a horrific crash that killed 11 people, is expected to appear in court today charged with murder.

A motorist was being questioned by police tonight after two commuter trains collided in Los Angeles, killing nine and injuring more than 100 passengers.

Two commuter trains collided and derailed in a Los Angeles suburb today, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others.

Three people have died in an early-morning three-way train collision in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

LABOUR disputes struck hard across southern California yesterday, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters stranded, grocery shoppers inconvenienced and county jails and courts threatened with closure.

TWO South African crew members and 12 US tourists were killed in a plane crash on Mount Kenya on Saturday evening.

A Los Angeles commuter train smashed into a truck at a level crossing, today, overturning two carriages and killing a person in the truck, which burst into flames.