Latest: Gardaí have warned people to use alternative routes if the road they are travelling on is flooded.

Ireland’s traffic & travel information service, AA Roadwatch, is today forecasting that traffic congestion is likely to improve significantly and that the coming ‘traffic season’ will be the lightest that we have had in many years.

Transport Minister Martin Cullen turned the sod on an upgrade of the notorious M50 today signalling over two years of traffic disruption for motorists.