The buyer of bankrupt Saab completed the deal to acquire most of its assets in a step that advanced its plans to make electric cars but said it would not be able to use the Swedish firm’s distinctive griffin head logo.

Volkswagen said today it was on track to finalise the full takeover of sports car manufacturer Porsche by the end of the month.

IF YOU’RE offered cheap Elizabeth Arden perfume, Hewlett Packard computers, or Canterbury sports clothing by a stranger in a pub, the chances are they were stolen from a warehouse in Co Cork.

A 57-YEAR-OLD man was killed after a dangerously defective lorry crashed into a bridge, dislodging blocks it was carrying, which fell 20ft on top him.

Swedish truckmaker Scania today said it had won an order for 500 trucks from British trucking company Eddie Stobart Ltd.

Plans by Bus Eireann to spend €16m euro on a fleet of luxury coaches with no wheelchair access were today branded incredible.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

A lorry driver accused of conspiracy in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance trial has told the jury in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he had nothing to do with the claims made.

Gardaí discovered a Irl £63,000-valued Scania transporter, which had been stolen in 1994 from a Customs and Excise pound at Rosslare Port, when they searched a north Co Louth premises in 1998.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.