Transport Minister Shane Ross has accused rural TDs who tried to block a drink-driving bill of needlessly risking the lives of their own constituents after it emerged two in every three road deaths this year have occurred in rural areas.

OVER the years diverse theories have sprung up about what happened to Shergar, with everyone from Colonel Gadaffi to a New Orleans mafia outfit to Charles Haughey accused of involvement.

A Waterford man has been convicted of INLA membership at the Special Criminal Court today.