FARMERS are now responsible for more than 90% of new planting, Forestry Minister Mary Wallace revealed when she presented the Irish Forestry Awards at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co Kildare.

A crash at the Red Cow roundabout on the outskirts of Dublin caused traffic delays in the area and disrupted LUAS Red Line services this morning, but the situation has since returned to normal.

Motorists in the east of the country are being urged to drive carefully today, with heavy fog affecting roads in many areas.

A former priest was today charged with indecently assaulting two boys at a health centre in north Co Dublin.

WHAT have Maud Gonne, WB Yeats and the M3 motorway got in common? The answer lies deep within the hill of Tara, Ireland’s most revered archaeological site and the subject of a campaign to preserve this sacred place from the juggernaut of progress.