Minister Simon Harris says measures to make people leave the car at home, including potential bus lanes on motorways, should get full consideration.

Gardai are awaiting instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the death of an elderly woman struck by a car on the N11 last May. 

A 52-year-old man is due in court in connection with an investigation targeting the distribution of stolen vehicles.

Gardaí have recovered 11 vehicles and made seven arrests in three operations over two days targeting organised burglary gangs.

Torrential rain and gale-force winds caused havoc across the country as three weather warnings took their toll.

A dispute between a company of property developer and investor Michael O’Flynn and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council over a refusal of planning permission for a €75m residential development in south Dublin will be heard by the Commercial Court in May.

There is a book to be written on the medical profession and its influence on the wine industry.

RTÉ's head of sport Ryle Nugent has been fined €100 for speeding on Christmas morning.

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s refusal to grant planning permission to build 164 houses in South County Dublin is to be challenged in the High Court.

A man has died after an apparent fall from a horse-drawn cart in Co Wicklow last night.

Two brave David’s to talk about this week — David Whelehan of Whelehan’s Wines which opened in December in the old Silver Tassie pub in Loughlinstown on the N11; and Dave Gallgher of Green Man Wines in Terenure which opened last month.

Gardaí investigating the fatal road traffic collision on the N11 at Ballylough, Ferns have arrested a man in his 30s in Wicklow Town this morning.

The tax break for microbreweries in Budget 2015 will encourage these small enterprises, which are springing up across the country.

The ESB has switched off power supply to some homes and businesses in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, as flood water continues to affect parts of the town.

Luck, and timing, and what might have been....but that’s no consolation for the Fleming Group, whose costly buy-in €245m site assembly vision for Sandyford on Dublin’s southside is only now coming to fruition, as some of its fruits get sold on again.

Commuters are facing chronic traffic delays today as more than 120,000passengers, who normally travel by train, look for alternative transport as the Irish Rail strike continues.

Politicians of all hues paid their respects to Albert the peacemaker as thousands gathered to say their final goodbye to the former taoiseach.

Gardaí are hunting two men who robbed a post office in Co. Wicklow this morning.

Almost a thousand motorists have been caught speeding on the roads in the last 24 hours.

The Government has secured funding from the European Investment Bank for a Luas link-up project in Dublin, which is set to create 800 consstruction jobs.

A 16-year-old girl has died in an accident in south Dublin.

The construction sector could register its first annual rise in output this year since 2006.

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

Work on getting rid of the last bottleneck between Dublin and Cork is getting underway.

Few will forget Ireland’s ill-fated 1995 clash with England at Lansdowne

More than 1,000 jobs are to be created in two road projects that will see the last major traffic bottleneck between Dublin and Cork removed.

The government has signed a €282m contract to upgrade parts of the N7 and N11.

Twenty crews from ESB Networks are now assisting their colleagues across the North where up to 40,000 homes have been left without power after heavy snow.

Torrential rain is having a serious impact on travel this afternoon, particularly in areas of Leinster.

Surface water and spot floods are causing problems for motorists this morning.

A property millionaire alleged to have made corrupt payments to a councillor told gardaí the councillor left the country in 2007 because he had “an affair with a young one” and not because of a Garda investigation, a court has heard.

Motorists are being advised to take extra caution on the roads tonight as the wintry conditions continue.

Gardaí investigating a fatal road crash which occurred in Co. Wicklow last week, are renewing their appeal for information.

Gardaí believe a man who got out of his car following an accident was killed after being hit by another vehicle which lost control in an icy pile-up.

A man has been killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Co Wicklow this morning. It is understood he was struck by a car after he was involved in a collision on the N11.

A man in his 30s has been killed in a crash in Co Wicklow.

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A portaloo, an oven, and even a boat were among some of the unusual sights which perplexed motorists met on the roads in the past year.

Heavy rain is easing nationwide, but motorists are being warned that some roads are still flooded in Leinster and Munster.