Gardaí are investigating two fatal collisions yesterday evening.

A three-year-old boy has died in a two car collision in Co Monaghan.

A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a father of two in Dublin five years ago.

A man has been jailed for life for being part of a plot to murder a father of two in front of his girlfriend and baby boy in Dublin.

A man has been found guilty of being part of a plot to murder a father of two outside his home in Dublin.

A court in Dublin has heard how a man was shot up to five times in front of his girlfriend and baby boy outside their house in Tallaght.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Andrew Allen in Co Donegal on Sunday have arrested a man.

More than €200m has already been spent on transport projects being put on ice, most of it on Metro North and the Dart Underground.

The Government is halting work on Metro North, Metro West, DART Underground, the Navan Rail line, the Thornton Hall prison and the Monaghan to Derry road through Northern Ireland.

The National Children's Hospital will proceed as planned next year, the Government has announced, but plans for Metro lines and a DART Underground have been shelved.

WE have had the Queen and the president, now it is time for the Kings.

THE care provided by a consultant at St James’s Hospital in Dublin to a woman who died as a result of complications from a bowel obstruction fell seriously short of expected standards, a medical expert has claimed.

THE family of a woman who died at St James’ Hospital in Dublin five days after being admitted with repeated complaints of vomiting and stomach cramps has expressed “grave concern” about the level of care provided by a doctor at the hospital.

THE heart was ripped out of an entire village by the death of a young garda who was killed after a car ploughed into his patrol vehicle, his state funeral heard yesterday.

A YOUNG garda was fighting for his life last night and another officer was hospitalised after a high-speed chase ended in a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver.

A SON of former minister and MEP Mark Killilea has been killed in a single-vehicle car accident in Co Galway.

TWO young Donegal GAA players were killed in a horrific road accident in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A small rural community was plunged in to mourning today after two young friends were killed in a road crash.

Two men have been killed today in a road collision in Co Donegal.

An articulated lorry has ploughed into three houses in Co Monaghan today, partially demolishing one of the buildings.

Icy conditions and road closures in Co Donegal have prompted gardaí in the county to advise motorists to stay at home this morning.

Gardaí in Donegal are appealing for information in relation to a fatal crash that happened in the early hours of the morning of August 4.

Emergency services have been called to the scene of a crash on the N2 Dublin to Derry Road at Clontibret in Co Monaghan.

A number of schoolchildren have escaped injury in a bus crash in Co Donegal this morning.

Gardaí have seized heroin worth €3m in the North East.

A section of the main Donegal to Derry road remains closed this morning following a fatal road accident yesterday evening.

A man in his 20s was killed today in a car crash in Donegal – the second young man to die on the county’s roads this weekend.

AFTER some of the most disruptive conditions of the past year, more heavy rain and strong winds are forecast over the weekend with the current stormy weather likely to dominate until Monday or Tuesday.

Police in the North are today questioning a teenager after a mob attack in Strabane, Co Tyrone.

A SPECIAL garda traffic unit which was set up on Donegal’s Inishowen peninsula last October in response to a high number of road fatalities in the area has now been extended until March.

A Presbyterian church was attacked in Strabane in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

Two people who died in a car crash in Co Monaghan yesterday evening have been named.

A man and a woman died in a single car collision on the Dublin to Derry road, north of Castleblaney in Co Monaghan.

One woman is dead, and two people injured in north Co Dublin following an accident on the main Dublin to Derry road.

Contracts have been signed to allow construction work on a €200m upgrade of the N2, Dublin to Derry road.

Three people died in a car smash in Co Monaghan today.

A truck was hijacked in Co Monaghan last night, on the main Dublin to Derry road.

A man who died in a road accident this morning in Co Meath has been named. Jose Kiaku, a 38-year-old north African, had an address at North Circular road, Dublin.

The motorcyclist killed in an accident in Co Louth yesterday afternoon has been named as 23-year old John Carroll from Rathbody in Ardee, Co Louth.

A man has died in a road accident in Co Louth.

A 19-year-old woman has died and a man is critically ill in hospital following a road traffic accident in Co Donegal this afternoon.

There has been a fatal road accident on the N2 Dublin to Derry road.

The residents of Slane in Co Meath are planning to block the bridge in the town, on the N2 Dublin to Derry road, during this evening's rush hour.