Imagine the scene: You’re the government official tasked with attracting foreign direct investment into the Cork and Limerick region. You collect a team of executives from a global US tech firm at Cork or Shannon Airport. They are interested in locating their European head office in the Munster region.

The N25 Cork to Waterford Road between Killeagh and Castlemartyr is currently impassable due to flooding. Efforts are being made to open the road and will continue.

A man in his twenties has been seriously injured in a road accident in Kilkenny.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a crash on the N24 Waterford to Clonmel road.