AA Roadwatch has said flooding which caused havoc for motorists in parts of the midlands and south this morning is now starting to subside.

Dense freezing fog was causing difficulties for motorists this morning, especially in the midlands where a major crash caused a closure of the Dublin-Limerick road, according to AA Roadwatch.

A new motorway delayed from opening after part of the road sank into a bog finally carried its first motorists today.

FROM a Gaelic chieftain surveying the Boyle bypass to the giant, rearing horse overseeing the roadway from Tralee to Cork city, Ann Lane has spent four years and travelled over 14,000 miles on an odyssey to catalogue the country’s main pieces of public art.

IT isn’t often that Taoiseach Brian Cowen gets to give out some good news but today he will announce the opening of the final link in the completion of the M8 motorway between Dublin and Cork.

THE last piece in the Dublin to Cork motorway jigsaw will fall into place towards the end of next month.

BUSINESS links between Dublin and Cork will be vastly improved with the opening of the final section of the Dublin/Cork motorway later this month.