The State could be facing a raft of compensation payouts arising out of several road traffic accidents linked to water pooling problems on one of Cork’s busiest roads.

Engineers are set to tackle potentially lethal water pooling at a flyover which opened just three years ago on one of the country’s busiest roads.

A massive clean-up operation is under way across Cork City after Ophelia left a trail of destruction.

A motorcyclist and a sportscar were involved in a high-speed race on a busy dual carriageway, with both vehicles weaving between traffic, just seconds before the biker was killed in a crash, witnesses have told an inquest.

Back-in-the-game sports retailers Elverys are continuing to hit the ground running, with a second Cork store off the busy ring road just acquired, hot on the heels of its just-opened city centre presence on Oliver Plunkett Street.

Three separate road crashes in Cork have caused traffic chaos in the city this morning.

The opening of two flyovers on Cork’s N40 South Ring Road has swamped the city’s western suburbs with traffic, a report has found.