Separate Garda and GSOC investigations have been launched following a serious road crash in Co. Kildare yesterday.

A major extension of facilities at a pharmaceutical plant near Cork harbour is the subject of a recent planning application.

A lorry-driver in his 50's has died in a road crash in Co Offaly this morning.

A man has died and four others are injured following a road accident on the Monasterevin Road in Co Kildare.

Another motorcyclist has died in a road accident, this time in Co Kildare.