The sister of a woman cyclist who died in a traffic accident in Co Kerry last week is demanding the road authorities carry out urgent improvements to a notorious stretch of a bypass road.

As the Irish group formerly known as Lynched transition to their new moniker of Lankum, Ed Power looks at some of the other bands who’ve changed their title in mid stream

Anarchy is how the president of the Limerick Solicitors Bar Association described scenes at a Limerick court when protesters took over the courtroom.

The public ethics watchdog is to investigate whether a civil servant broke any rules by failing to tell County Councillors they were buying a property he owned.

Pictures of two young men hanging out of car windows while allegedly driving in Co Cork have been condemned by hundreds of social media users, who said lives could have been lost.

Transport links and power supplies across the country are facing major disruption, because of the hurricane-force winds today.

A judge will not decide until after Christmas whether to extradite two men wanted the Netherlands in connection with the death of a man whose body was found inside a suitcase in an Amsterdam canal.

A former political lobbyist has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he made cash payments to county councillors to secure their votes for the rezoning of land.

A politician has said RTÉ is costing his county thousands of visitors because of dodgy weather forecasts.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has reiterated this morning that there will be no extension to the deadline for payment of the household charge.

HIGH-PROFILE election casualties Cork South Central’s Deirdre Clune, Kerry South’s Tom Sheahan and Wexford’s Michael D’Arcy are among those nominated by Fine Gael for the upcoming Seanad election.

THE mayor of Clare Cllr Christy Curtin is financing his own costs of representing the county for a week-long St Patrick’s Day trip to New York.

Limerick chairman Liam Lenihan last night rejected claims that his board has been involved in a campaign of intimidation and bullying against members of the 2009 hurling squad who refuse to play under Justin McCarthy.

WEXFORD County Board have come out in support of the proposed agreement between the GAA and the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

It has been confirmed that today's All-Ireland SHC relegation play-offs involving Antrim, Offaly, Clare and Wexford will go ahead as planned, after a decision was made by the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) early today.

The mother of a young Irishman who was shot and killed by police last week in the US is travelling to Oregon to meet with Marion County District Attorney Walt Beglau.

DUBLIN hurlers may be closer to getting to a Leinster hurling final than they have been for some time, but, County Board Secretary John Costello accepts that it’s too early to be talking about a revival of fortunes.

GAA President elect Christy Cooney received a standing ovation at Tuesday night’s Cork County Board meeting.

There is still no end in sight to the impasse between the Cork panels and the County Board over the right of the senior managers to choose his own selectors.

THE views of an Oxford University professor and the county manager have been ignored by Kerry councillors, who have agreed to rezone historic demesne lands for residential purposes.

A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in the Colorado mountain town of Bailey, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl and then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.

The owner of the US boat that capsized on Lake George, killing 20 elderly tourists, could face a fine as small as €21 for failing to have enough crew members on board, police said today.

WATERFORD county councillor Brendan Mansfield has broken ranks with his council colleagues by making public details of private discussions on solutions to an impending waste crisis in the area.

LAST NIGHT’S Cork County Board meeting heard a call for panels of inter county teams to be again reduced to 24 players.

FIANNA FÁIL councillors in Kerry yesterday said they had a ‘very constructive’ meeting with new county manager Martin Riordan on controversial planning issues, but stressed they were still not happy with the way people were being treated.

PARENTS fear their children could be killed from poison that is being deliberately laid on a green area in a busy housing estate.

“FOR once in my life I’m actually speechless. I’m sure the Minister for Finance would be happy to hear that.”

Gardai are continuing investigations this morning into the delivery of a miniature coffin and bullet to the home of the Roscommon County Manager, John Tiernan.

An investigation has been launched after posters carrying messages allegedly offensive to retained firefighters were found attached to a fire station.