Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man in his thirties died in a motorcycle crash in Co. Westmeath yesterday.

LAST month was the most lethal period on Irish roads in more than two and a half years, with 35 people losing their lives in just 31 days.

A man who suffered serious head injuries after the van he was driving collided into a herd of horses who had wandered onto the road has been awarded more than €330,000 in damages at the High Court.

GARDAÍ in the midlands are searching for four armed and masked raiders who escaped with an undisclosed quantity of cash from a pub on the main Galway-Dublin road yesterday morning.

A woman has died following a road accident in Co Westmeath.