Gardaí say the slip road from the M50 Northbound to the M2 has been closed following an accident.

One of the North's busiest roads was closed today because of collapsed overhead power lines.

A Catholic policeman who survived a dissident republican bomb attack has had his right leg amputated, police confirmed today.

A Catholic police officer who survived a dissident republican car bomb is a hero, his chief constable said.

A Catholic police officer remained in a critical but stable condition in hospital tonight after being injured by a booby trap bomb in the North which was blamed on dissident republicans

THE Smarter Travel sustainable transport policy document published by Transport Minister Noel Dempsey (February 5) takes the public for fools.

Motorists were today urged to drive with extreme caution due to icy conditions across the country.

The multimillion-pound upgrade of the Westlink in Belfast took a major step forward when the Broadway Underpass opened today 13 months ahead of schedule.

Over-worked drivers are behind a sharp rise in the number of bus and train accidents in Northern Ireland, a trade unionist claimed today.

AN OUTER orbital motorway which would allow traffic to bypass the M50 and Dublin city was last night promised by the Progressive Democrats.

A 21-year-old man is dead following a car crash in the North.

The British government was today urged by a Northern Ireland MP to spend more on the UK’s rail network as part of measures to tackle global warming.

Up to 50 people were forced to spend the night in temporary accommodation after homes were flooded with sewage in Belfast.

The family of a Co Donegal teenager shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in the North 32 years ago have slammed the attitude of the Gardaí and the Government towards their plight.

I AM confused by the Government decision to scrap plans to install a toll on the M2 motorway which will run alongside the present N2 route in Co Meath and will be the main Monaghan road to Dublin.

Police urged motorists to take care today after thunderstorms swept across Northern Ireland.

Police in Northern Ireland narrowly missed catching the gang responsible for the Northern bank robbery in history red-handed, it emerged tonight.

A man has died after crashing his car into a heavily wooded area in Co Antrim.

THERE were no ‘Yankee Go Home’ signs on display in Belfast last night, but the welcome was far from warm for US President George W Bush as he touched down for his first visit to Ireland.

FINANCIAL aid will be made available for extreme hardship if it is decided the damage done by Thursday night’s floods is severe enough, the Government said last night.

A major new drive to cut traffic congestion in Belfast city centre was launched today with the unveiling of a new information website for motorists.

Army bomb disposal experts today defused an incendiary-type device in Belfast.

Police in Northern Ireland were today questioning two men after a stolen tipper lorry was stopped travelling the wrong way down a city by-pass.

Detectives are today questioning two youths after a midwife was seriously injured when a boulder was hurled through the windscreen of her car as she drove down a Northern Ireland motorway.

A midwife was seriously ill in hospital tonight after a boulder was hurled through the windscreen of her car as she drove down a Northern Ireland motorway.

A man is recovering in hospital in the North today after being found with serious head and spinal injuries under a motorway bridge in Co Antrim.