A day care centre for people with intellectual disabilities has apologised after leaving a young man behind on a swimming trip.

Construction products and packing group, Quinn Industrial Holdings is seeking to expand into the ready-mix concrete market to tap the building boom in the Dublin area and is open to making acquisitions if opportunities arise.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Beware the intersection: A study of road collisions in Dublin shows where and when crashes are more likely to occur.

Fighting rural migration and worrying levels of unemployment in towns and villages around the country must be a priority, newly promoted Rural Affairs Minister Michael Ring has been told.

An Independent TD is seeking an all-party motion in the Dáil calling for the suspension of plans for the proposed Children's Hospital at the St James' site in Dublin.

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Leinster GAA chief John Horan has given the strongest indication yet that a new stadium will be built close to Dublin’s M50 motorway, suggesting ground could be broken on the project within five years.

The National Roads Authority (NRA) is seeking firms to bid for a new estimated €155m 11-year contract to provide e-flow toll services on the M50 motorway until 2029.

A former garda who perverted the course of justice on two occasions and admitted having cocaine for sale or supply will be sentenced next month.

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious accident on the M50 motorway.

Pre-tax profits at the French consortium that operates the e-flow toll on Dublin’s M50 increased last year by 20% to €2.96m, new figures show.

In Dublin, motorists are being advised to expect significant delays after a car overturned on the M50 motorway this afternoon.

The trial of four councillors accused of accepting bribes to rezone more than 100 acres of land has heard that the rezoning went against the advice of the then county manager.

There is traffic chaos on the M50 in Dublin with two separate incidents causing delays.

A fresh proposal for the National Paediatric Hospital claims it could complete the facility by the second half of 2016, at an overall cost of €420m.

A top detective said “I'm f***ed, I'm f***ed” when an unmarked Garda car he was driving crashed on the M50 motorway after he had spent hours in a pub, a court has heard.

A Detective Garda has gone on trial accused of dangerous driving and unauthorised taking of an unmarked Garda car which was involved in a collision in Dublin in 2010.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is reportedly considering introducing multiple tolls on Dublin's M50 motorway.

GARDAÍ are hunting the gunmen who killed a man at a Traveller halting site in north Dublin.

I NEVER cease to be amazed at the contradictions in our treatments of animals.

A RETIRED carpenter involved in seven accidents over a 23-year period has secured €91,463 in High Court damages arising from a violent collision which left him and his 12-year-old son trapped inside their Toyota jeep for 90 minutes with a strong smell of petroleum coming from the crash scene.

TRUST the Americans to come up with novel ways of getting rid of unwanted and wilted Christmas trees in an environmentally-friendly way.

As the Bank Holiday exodus gets underway, there has been a five-car collision on the M50 motorway in Dublin today.

THE state suffered a cash shortfall of almost €3m in the first year of operation of barrier-free tolling on the M50 motorway following the Government’s controversial buyout of the Westlink toll bridge.

The M50 motorway in Dublin has fully reopened following an earlier collision.

Upgrade works at the M50 motorway in Dublin will officially end today after four years.

IT might sound just like common sense, but if you want people to change their ways and do something different the best way to go about it is to make it easy for them.

The head of the National Roads Authority is due before the Oireachtas Committee on Transport later.

Traffic congestion will ease for rush-hour motorists today when a new third land opens on the M50 motorway.

IRELAND’S improving road safety record has been recognised internationally as a major study has ranked the Republic as 10th out of 27 developed countries.

There is traffic chaos on Dublin's M50 this afternoon.

CONCRETE products company The Kilsaran Group has effectively announced 120 jobs as part of a €30 million investment at its headquarters in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

BUSINESS representatives are meeting key European Investment Bank (EIB) personnel today to discuss how best to access the bank’s €15 billion loan facility for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

A Dublin drug addict who drove the wrong way on the M50 motorway in a Garda car chase last year has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The new third lane of the M50 motorway should be given over to car pools and buses, an MEP insisted today.

The new barrier-free tolling system on Dublin's M50 motorway is reportedly operating incorrectly for about 10,000 vehicles a day.

A man has been injured in a crash involving two trucks and a car on the M50 motorway in Dublin.

Motorists are being warned to expect traffic disruption around the M50 motorway in Dublin this weekend due to ongoing upgrading works

Two young mothers who voluntarily got into a stolen car which was later involved in a high speed garda chase resulting in the death of a 16-year-old passenger may be given community service orders.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in his 20s following the seizure of 20 kilos of heroin on the M50 motorway last night.

THE opening of retail giant Ikea’s first Irish store could be delayed by up to a year because contractors for the National Roads Authority (NRA) will not finish access roads for customers on time.

TOM Gilmartin’s aim to transform the Quarryvale site into a major retail development on the fringes of Dublin was described to the Mahon Tribunal yesterday as over-ambitious given the country’s economic state in the late 1980s.