Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A stretch of road between Cork City centre and Ballintemple is considered the most dangerous in Cork, according to a Garda rating system used to determine the location of speed cameras.

The Government is to make €10.2m in funding available for national road schemes, with nearly half of the fund going towards a section of the Cork-Limerick road.

Five people, including a four-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following a pile-up on the outskirts of Cork city which closed the main Cork-Limerick road for several hours yesterday.

THE route is all left turns, easily followed from the map. As we proceed north, and then west, we have views of the forested slopes of the Ballyhoura Range, Caroline Mountain, Knockduv, Carron and Seefin.

A leading psychiatrist has said the exact circumstances surrounding the murder-suicide of twins Paddy and Thomas O’Driscoll and their brother Jonathan needed to come to light before the stunned local community of Charleville could come to terms with what had happened.

A NEW sales and letting pitch is to be tried at Cork’s City Square development — the pitch is ‘space for free.’

Sq m: 168 (1,810 sq ft)

MOTORISTS could be facing tolls on major roads within three years after the National Roads Authority (NRA) confirmed it is hiring consultants to examine the potential for “new tolling arrangements”.

LEADING road safety campaigner Gay Byrne has said legislation making breathalyser tests mandatory for anyone in a car accident where someone has been injured will significantly reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads.

Tommy Barker