Three men have died in separate road crashes in the last 24 hours.

TWO childcare facilities in Waterford are to get a major boost under the latest round of funding for crèche nation-wide.

A MAJOR operation targeting reckless motorists is to be carried out over the next two days following two weeks of carnage on the roads that has left 15 people dead.

FIVE people have died in just 24 hours in one of the blackest weekends ever on Irish roads.

Five people have been killed in road collisions around the country since yesterday morning.