Morning rush-hour traffic slowed to a crawl in most New Zealand cities today as hauliers snarled highways and streets with thousands of vehicles to protest higher road taxes.

A GOVERNMENT Senator launched a scathing attack on the Government yesterday over the controversial Cork Airport debt issue.

Following today's announcement of new road safety proposals by the Road Safety Authority to the Minister of Transport, Green Party Spokesperson on Transport, Eamon Ryan TD said today: "We welcome any measures that help reduce the number of tragic accidents on our roads.

Broadcaster Gay Byrne should mind his own business and let politicians do their own job, the Dáil heard today.

The resignation of the chairman of the National Safety Council represented “a damning vote of no confidence” in the Minister of Transport, Martin Cullen, it was claimed today.

IRELAND’S six regional airports are being given more than €6 million in funding over the next two years, Transport Minister Martin Cullen announced yesterday.

Infrastructural projects in this country are billions of euro over budget, and vast numbers are not coming in on time, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has ruled out as too expensive the proposed Dublin metro - one of the Government’s central transport commitments in its Programme for Government.

WITH the Minister of Transport about to hold a summit once more to discuss our appalling road safety record, why has the Government, without EU ‘harmonisation,’ unilaterally implemented life-saving anti-smoking measures?

Coach operator Citylink will begin a Galway-Shannon Airport intercity service from next Monday.

THE mid-west region is losing foreign direct investment because of infrastructural deficits and reduced air services at Shannon Airport, the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland said yesterday.