Lands needed to complete a €4m greenway cycle route high over the Ring of Kerry are to be acquired by compulsory purchase order because grant funding will run out if the project is not completed by December 2016, councillors have been told.

A man caught trying to get into Leinster House with a Civil War era sword has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service.

New charges have been brought against a Dublin man allegedly caught with a sword outside Leinster House.

A Dublin youth who was allegedly caught "red-handed" armed with a sword in the front yard of Leinster House, has been remanded on continuing bail while gardaí prepare a file for the DPP.

A youth caught “red-handed” armed with a sword in the front yard of Leinster House “had no particular target”, a court has heard.

A Dublin teenager allegedly caught red-handed with a sword in the front yard of Leinster House is to get bail.

Gardaí and Bus Éireann are conducting separate investigations into a crash between a bus and a car in Meath last night which claimed the life of a woman in her 30s.

A woman has died after the car she was driving collided with a bus, gardaí said.

Mark Keogan, brother of TV and radio star Hector Ó hEochagáin, was today awarded €85,000 compensation for unfair dismissal in September 2009 as manager of The George Pub and Nightclub in Georges Street, Dublin.

A suspect device was made safe by the army bomb unit last night.

FOUR people at a special needs residential facility have been infected with swine flu, days after two children in a similar centre on the border died of the virus.

One person has died after a car and a tractor were in collision on the Navan to Kells Road in Co Meath this afternoon.

A 17-year-old man has died after being knocked down by a car on the Kells Road in Kilkenny yesterday evening.

Gardaí in Co Meath are investigating a suspected arson attack on the offices of the Probation and Welfare Service in Navan last night.

Gardaí have named the three men who were killed in separate road accidents since yesterday.

ONE of the country’s best-known Travellers, Adare antique dealer Simon Quilligan, has made a €595,000 tax settlement with the Revenue Commissioners.

Revenue has collected over €97m from tax defaulters in the three months from July to September this year.

UP to 12 hours of torrential rain wreaked havoc across the south-east yesterday, with parts of Kilkenny and Wexford hardest hit.

GARDAÍ were last night examining a four-wheel drive used as a getaway car after an armed raid on a Meath pub.

A four-man gang has escaped with a large amount of cash and cigarettes following a raid on a pub in Co Meath this morning.

Garda technical experts are continuing to examine the scene of a fire at a house in Co Meath overnight in which two young sisters were killed.

One person has died in a road accident in Co Louth this morning, shortly before 8am.