A judge said yesterday that the behaviour of a 50-year-old man who followed a frightened teacher for 16km to her home at night in a “road rage” incident was “absolutely and utterly outrageous”.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has begun installing emergency telephones on the M18 Ennis bypass, over a year after the route was upgraded to motorway status, however it has been claimed that the route remains unfinished and unsafe.