Nine days after the opening of the iconic Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, BAM took the decision to close it during Storm Ciara.

Technology specialists behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch have arrived in New Ross to work on the newly built Emigrant Flame, which will be lit by members of the Kennedy family and the Taoiseach this summer.

AN Irish Examiner investigation into the scourge of unfinished estates has shown how thousands of householders are living in developments where unsurfaced roads, poor drainage, open sewage treatment plants and no public lighting are the norm.

AN investigation is under way into how up to five lorry loads of domestic rubbish thought to have come from Wexford and other parts of the South East ended up dumped on land almost 200 miles away in the North.