A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

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DO you know Ballydehob? It’s a beautiful village, way down in the south west of our country.

Firefighters were called into action this morning when a fire broke out on a Bus Éireann bus on the main Cork-Dublin Road just outside Cork city early this morning.

With craft beer one of the few success stories to emerge from the recession, the Mitchelstown-based brewers Eight Degrees stand out as the brewmasters. And they’re only just getting started, writes Trish Dromey

A Cork satellite town will play host to a national motorcycle racing event for the first time.

IT’S 12 years old, but inside it feels practically brand new, thanks to ongoing upgrades and investment in decor and design.

A €7 MILLION service station has opened near Monasterevin, Co Kildare, which will provide services for motorists on the motorway linking Dublin with Limerick, Cork, Clare, Tipperary and Kerry.

The need to end the gridlock at city’s key road junction has intensified, writes Sean O’Riordan

PLANS have been drawn up to replace the Dunkettle roundabout with signalised dual carriageway and create a new slip road which will allow Dublin-bound traffic to avoid the congested junction at the Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

I WOULD firstly like to commend Cork County Council for the recent clean-up operation on the main Cork-Dublin road between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and the Glanmire exit.

“CAN you call back, I’m just selling a house?” said builder Alan Bardsley when the Irish Examiner buzzed him on Monday last.

A 40-KM-LONG superhighway linking Tipperary with Laois —o n the main Cork-Dublin road — is set to open on December 8, more than six months ahead of schedule.

THE main Cork-Dublin road was closed for nearly five hours yesterday after a head-on collision left two drivers with serious injuries.

A COUNCIL official in Co Cork has described a large Traveller encampment on the side of a busy main road as having “gone beyond a joke”.

A NEW €226 million container terminal in Co Cork could affect the economic viability of ports in Waterford and Dublin, and result in traffic gridlock and more deaths on the roads.

THE chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Gary McGann, has written to the Cork Airport Authority (CAA) and told them they must accept a €100 million debt.

GARDAÍ were yesterday waiting to interview three lorry drivers who were seriously injured in a horrific accident which claimed the life of a 34-year-old Polish man.

TRAFFIC chaos ensued yesterday on one of the country’s busiest roads when a lorry smashed into three trucks, claiming one life and leaving three drivers in hospital.

FIGURES released by gardaí yesterday show that the highest number of motorists’ deaths occurring in Cork, Kerry and Limerick are on main roads, reinforcing the view that public criticism of excessive speed traps on these arteries is unwarranted.

THE National Roads Authority will today assure concerned residents that safeguards will be put in place to counter motorists escaping a new toll bridge on the main Cork-Dublin road.

A 62-YEAR-OLD woman was seriously injured when she was crushed by a lorry in Fermoy yesterday.

ONE hour will be taken off the journey between Dublin and Cork by 2010, according to the chairman of the National Roads Authority (NRA).

MOTORISTS used to being gridlocked in a North Cork town will soon breathe a sign of relief, with the announcement it will open well ahead of schedule next month.

A LARGE-SCALE manhunt is continuing for an armed robber who hijacked a car at gunpoint, used it during a raid on a credit union and then abandoned it in forestry.

THINGS are looking down in the Irish property market. That’s not a gloomy forecast — it is merely an observation that maybe the time has come to build basements.

FOUR men were arrested after they rammed two garda cars and were involved in a 25-mile-long high speed chase in Cork yesterday.

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an horrific head-on-crash which claimed the life of a 46-year-old soldier yesterday morning.

A MAN of Eastern European origin was arrested yesterday in Fermoy following an intensive manhunt after a young woman travelling to work was abducted at knifepoint from a garage almost two weeks ago.

GARDAÍ have launched a major manhunt after a young woman travelling to work was abducted at knifepoint from a garage.

A JUMP of 17% in daylight burglaries in rural areas is being blamed on a lack of garda manpower.

SIAC Construction and Spanish infrastructure giant Cintra have landed the €600 million contract to build the controversial M3 motorway linking Dublin with the Meath towns of Navan and Kells, the National Roads Authority said yesterday.

THE people of a north Cork town were urged yesterday to seek a judicial review if a developer is granted permission to build 73 houses and a 100-bedroom hotel.

A BOY of 12 was killed and a second 12-year-old seriously injured after the car in which they were travelling collided with an oil tanker in north Cork yesterday.

PLANS for a €300 million tunnel, up to five kilometres long, are to be lodged with the National Roads Authority as part of the proposed northern ring road around Cork city.

A five-year-old boy injured in an accident which killed four other members of his family remains in a serious condition in hospital today.

A BUILDER who celebrated his 60th birthday last weekend was one of two men who died in an early morning crash in Co Kerry yesterday.

THREE generations of the one family were killed yesterday in an horrific crash on another black day on Irish roads