A helmet "can very definitely be the difference between life and death for a cyclist."

The man was initially arrested for dangerous driving and released on bail before being re-arrested yesterday on the drug charge.

So now the real work begins. The debates over squad selection are over, at least inside the Irish camp, and now comes the business end of Joe Schmidt’s preparations for Japan and the 2019 World Cup.

The body of a man who was shot in Rowans Little, Walshestown in Balbriggan has been removed from the scene.

The plan has taken a major step forward after it signed an agreement with Nippon Gasses to provide CO2 for a facility with the capacity to store 2,500 tonnes of the gas.

Gardaí are continuing investigations into yesterday's shooting at a retail park in Co. Louth.

A man has died following a two-vehicle collision on the main Dublin to Belfast road.

Up to 1,500 motorists overcharged on the M1 motorway are to get a refund by the end of the month.

Motorists in the UK have been warned of dangerous conditions on the roads and air travellers of potential disruption as snow and ice hit large swathes of the country.

Thousands of British motorists and passengers were again stranded for up to 12 hours while bomb disposal experts tackled a mysterious hazard on the carriageway.

A lorry driver accused of causing the deaths of eight people in a crash on the M1 has appeared in court.

A lorry driver facing 20 charges over a motorway horror crash in England that left eight people dead has appeared in court.

Two men have been charged in connection with the M1 crash in which eight people were killed.

Three minibus passengers, including a five-year-old girl, are fighting for their lives after a motorway crash which killed eight people.

Latest: Six men and two women were killed when their minibus and two lorries crashed on a motorway, leaving three other passengers fighting for their lives.

A woman has died after a collision near the M1 motorway in Belfast last night.

Today, the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup folds its tents and moves up the M1 from the UCD campus on Dublin’s southside to Belfast.

Update 10.47am: The Dublin Port Tunnel has now fully reopened both ways following a truck fire.

Commuters in Dublin are facing travel disruption again today as cross city works continue on the Luas.

A Dublin man who bought the car that was later used in the fatal shooting of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black has been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court of IRA membership.

Update 7.35am: The man injured in a road accident on the M1 motorway this morning has been pronounced dead at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

A single vehicle crash in County Meath has claimed the life of a man in his 50s.

A man who sexually assaulted a woman as she slept on a coach in the UK has been jailed.

Update: 10:30pm A man has died in a crash in county Dublin.

Gardaí, as part of a joint Garda and PSNI operation investigating the murder of prison officer David Black, have arrested two men in Co. Donegal.

Two youths have been sent forward for trial accused of false imprisonment of a teenage schoolgirl who was allegedly bundled into a car in Dublin and taken away until gardaí intercepted them.

A European Arrest Warrant has been obtained for a suspect in the murder of prison officer David Black in the North, PSNI said.

A terrified schoolgirl thought she was going to be raped after she was forced into a car and driven away at speed, Dublin Children’s Court was told yesterday.

A police officer who brought an unconscious motorist's car to a halt by ramming it into a motorway safety barrier has been commended by his Chief Constable in the UK.

A Dublin taxi driver was assaulted and stabbed several times before his attackers stole his car and drove off this weekend.

A Dublin Airport taxi driver has been fined €250 after he was found guilty of failing to take an accountant on the shortest route to his home in Blackrock.

An internal INLA dispute and the Kinahan-Hutch feud are being examined as motives for the latest gun attack in Dublin.

Traffic in a British city centre has been brought to a standstill by a man who climbed a lamppost and refused to come down.

A woman who posed as a UN diplomat and took €8,990 from a Japanese woman in Dublin Airport, after promising her access to a container filled with cash, will be sentenced in June.

If the UK does ultimately vote to leave the European Union it could have disastrous consequences for Irish firms. Several major business groups and think tanks outline here what they think could happen,

A group calling itself the New IRA has claimed a bombing which injured a prison officer.

Dublin residents living along the route of a planned €20m aviation-fuel pipeline to Dublin Airport have raised safety concerns.

Online prostitution is soaring as sex buyers from Northern Ireland head south to avoid new laws.

A 40-year-old man has been seriously injured in an overnight road accident in Dundalk.