Two people have appeared in court charged in connection with the death of model Katy French.

A CIRCUIT court has put the brakes on motorists who escaped bigger fines and the risk of more penalty points by claiming they didn’t get mailed a fixed penalty notice for speeding.

A 24-YEAR-OLD Dubliner has appeared in court on a drugs charge related to events surrounding the death of model Katy French in 2007.

A second man has been charged in connection with a €2m heroin seizure in Co Meath over the weekend.

A WOMAN arrested at Dublin Airport over the weekend was discovered to be carrying a kilogram of cocaine inside her body.

A man is due in court in Co Meath this morning charged in connection with Friday's heroin seizure in Co Louth.

A man has been arrested while protesting at Rath Lugh near the Hill of Tara.

FOUR of the five people who were arrested yesterday during a demonstration against the controversial M3 motorway being routed close to the historic Hill of Tara were detained in prison last night.

Bus Eireann was today charged with owning a defective vehicle during the Navan bus crash.

WORK is due to begin within days to fit all Bus Éireann school buses with seat belts and should be completed this summer.

FINE GAEL yesterday called for an independent road test of all public transport vehicles in the wake of the Navan school bus tragedy.

BUS ÉIREANN will face charges as a result of the fatal Navan bus crash which claimed the lives of five schoolgirls in Co Meath earlier this year.

A 43-year-old man is due before a special sitting of Navan District Court today in connection with the death of a woman in Meath.

SIX settled Traveller families in Navan, Co Meath, yesterday successfully objected to the renewal of the licence for a pub which had imposed a blanket ban on Travellers.

The 40-year-old woman, who has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Kilcock man, has appeared before a special sitting of the Navan District Court this afternoon.

A woman who was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a middle-aged man in Co Meath is to face charges.

A man has been before a special sitting of Navan District Court in connection with a double stabbing incident in the Co Meath town.