More than 1,000 jobs are to be created in two road projects that will see the last major traffic bottleneck between Dublin and Cork removed.

Construction companies will be restricted from employing foreigners on several new motorway projects that are expected to create 10,000 jobs.

The Minister for Transport, Leo Varadkar, has said the motorway budget has been restored by the Government stimulus plan announced today by the Minister for Public Reform.

LANDOWNERS subject to compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) have been invited to support a legal bid to improve their capital gains tax outcome.