A loaded sawn off shot-gun was prodded into the stomach of a Co Clare mother and she was told she would have her head blown off.

Shocking footage has been released showing a lorry driver in England checking his mobile phone while resting his right foot on the dashboard.

Emergency services have dealt with seven individual road traffic collisions on the same stretch of the M18 in counties Clare and Galway this morning.

Forecourt operator, Applegreen, has moved to get ahead of Supermac’s and be the first to provide a motorway service stop along the M18, connecting Limerick to Gort.

The Dromoland Castle Hotel is seeking to block renewed plans by forecourt operator Applegreen to extend its network of motorway service areas into Co Clare.

The five-star Dromoland Castle has stopped plans by Applegreen to extend its national network of motorway service areas into Clare.

Plans by Supermacs supremo Pat McDonagh to repeat the success of his Barack Obama Plaza in Co Clare are in jeopardy.

Gardaí are investigating a crash in Cork City which left six people needing hospital treatment.

Dramatic video footage of the moment a car sped past unsuspecting motorists on the wrong side of a busy dual-carriageway earlier this month has appeared online.

The biggest construction project in the State, which got under way at the weekend, is expected to take four years to complete.

Tributes have been paid to a football coach who was killed in a car crash on his way to a Women’s League of Ireland fixture at Tallaght Stadium.

A woman in her 20s has died following a road traffic collision at Ballylion, Barefield close to Ennis Co Clare shortly before 4pm this afternoon.

Gardaí are questioning two men after a suspected pipe bomb was discovered on the outskirts of Ennis, Co Clare.

Concern has been expressed about the safety and reliability of HSE ambulances in the Mid-West following a series of incidents in recent months.

A MOTHER-OF-12 is dreading “a sad, lonely Christmas” after her Traveller family is being forced to vacate a roadside encampment.

THE National Roads Authority has been criticised for taking almost three years to install emergency phones on a motorway in Co Clare while the authority still stands accused of failing to complete the route to the “highest safety standards.”

THERE’S roughly 137 miles separating Liam McHale’s home in Ballina in north Mayo and the village of Cooraclare in the west of Clare. In the winter he embarks on that route two nights every week to the pitch which is the epicentre for the Banner county’s football preparations.

The Minister for Transport will open the Gort bypass later today, where he will be faced with farmers who are angry over the lack of action since last year's devastating floods.

FIVE people, including a young child, were injured yesterday after two cars collided on the M18 motorway about six kilometres from Ennis, closing part of the route for two hours.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has called for the country’s road maintenance budget to be more than doubled to ensure real action to tackle litter on tourist thoroughfares.

IRELAND’S key tourist entry points are covered in blankets of rubbish which make for “an appalling sight” that is seriously damaging the already frail economy.