Heavy hail showers were reported around the time each of today’s incidents occurred.

Speed limits on sections of the N7 and M7 are due to expire at midnight tonight.

Fianna Fáil members who would consider entering Government with Sinn Féin should either remove Micheál Martin as leader or else rule out such a coalition, Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer says.

Fianna Fáil members who would consider entering Government with Sinn Féin should either remove Micheál Martin as leader or else rule out such a coalition, Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer has said.

Four men have been arrested by gardaí investigating an incident in Wexford.

No trams have been running between Balally and Brides Glen since yesterday evening, because of a power fault.

Pat Fitzpatrick is unashamedly proud of his birthplace, so much so he’s written a new book: 101 Reasons Why Cork Is Better Than Dublin

A jack-knifed truck has blocked the M7 Limerick to Dublin motorway just outside Limerick.

At the Grand Hotel in Fermoy, Co Cork, last Friday, a 95-acre non-residential farm went under the hammer, producing a strong result.

Fans travelling to Croke Park for tomorrow's All-Ireland hurling final are being warned of possible traffic disruption.

The director of services with Kildare County Council, Niall Morrissey, has defended the decision to keep the speed limit on the newly upgraded M7 at 60km/h for today.

A PROFILE site with 140m frontage to Limerick City’s Dock Road, and in an area earmarked as an economic development hub with docklands focus has been put to market for the Shannon Foynes Port Company.

Works have been taking place on the motorway since January of last year.

Supermac’s owner, Pat McDonagh, has secured planning permission for a new €10m motorway services plaza on the M7 near Portlaoise, despite claims it will lead to the creation of two rival operations within 150 metres of each other.

Three lanes are re-opening on the M7 in Kildare this morning.

BILLY “One Seat” Kelleher: that rather disparaging description of the long-standing TD and favourite MEP candidate, by his party colleague Malcolm Byrne over a perceived breach of an agreed boundary has generated much hilarity this week.

There is something inherent in Ireland’s institutional and political structure that renders it nigh on impossible to devise and deliver policy, particularly in the sphere of capital investment.

A rift has emerged between Fianna Fáil’s two candidates in Ireland South after Malcolm Byrne lodged an official complaint to party bosses about his party rival Billy Kelleher, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

A young man arrested as a child for running an alleged explosives and firearm collection errand for one of the people convicted of the murder of Gareth Hutch has failed in a legal bid to stop his prosecution over delay.

The motorway in Co Kildare has been undergoing work since 2017.

A section of the M7 has fully reopened after being closed since Friday to facilitate the installation of a bridge.

As part of upgrade works, a new bridge is being installed and the motorway is closed in both directions between Naas North and Naas South.

An eagle owl, with a wingspan of 6 ft 5 in and capable of eating a fully grown deer has gone missing in Kildare.

Motorists are being warned to expect significant delays this weekend on the main M7 in Co. Kildare.

Sudden and heavy snowfalls caused massive tailbacks on the M7 and M8 motorways.

It’s that time of the year — the common frog might become a more common sight on our roads, with the increased risk that many will get squashed under car and truck wheels.

‘Oddly satisfying’ is a phrase you’ll often find more often now in Internet-land.

Ireland’s only child-free coffee shop is brewing up a storm, writes Nuala Woulfe

Latest: As the snow melts drivers are being warned not to be lulled into a false sense of security.

Two other drivers have been brought to hospital.

UpdateTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that pay rises for rail workers should wait until investment is made to the fleet and infrastructure.

Two hundred and twenty five people were caught speeding on National Slow Down day yesterday.

A year ago it was Ireland’s tidiest village but this year Birdhill occupies an even higher perch after winning the overall national title of the country’s tidiest town.

A PUBLIC consultation process begins in Limerick on Friday on the Opera site, set to span a 550,000 sq ft office campus on a four acre city site as part of the Limerick Twenty Thirty programme.

A motorist has had a lucky escape after their car burst into flames on the M7 Limerick to Dublin Road this morning.

The motorist who died in a pile-up in the M7 on Wednesday evening has been named as Padhraic Moran, a well-known figure in the insurance industry and a cousin of former Kerry footballer Ogie Moran.

Update - 7.48am, Thursday, March 2: Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a multi vehicle crash on the M7 which saw one man lose his life.

Update 11pm: An Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe three suspect devices found in Naas, Co. Kildare.

Emergency services are at the scene of two crashes in Kildare and Westmeath today.