A road-safety crank who crashed his car into RTÉ studios at Donnybrook earlier this month was arrested just before Christmas for alleged threatening behaviour outside the private home of the station’s top broadcaster, Pat Kenny.

ROAD safety chiefs say the appalling loss of life witnessed this weekend must be viewed in the context of a falling number of road deaths during the autumn months.

AN Irish invention will spare mobile phone users the tedium of having to key in their numbers again to a new phone when their original handset is lost or stolen.