One of the worst series of bends in the country is to be rectified, at a cost of €10m.

A former garda, previously tasked to one of a number of fatal road traffic accidents in the Limerick village of Clarina, has said the 100km/h speed limit on the N69 approach road into it is “dangerous”.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

A total of 341 vehicles were caught speeding on National Slow Down Day, gardaí have revealed.

Gardaí have detected 191 people speeding today, which is National Slow Down Day.

It’s just gone 10am on Monday. Not everyone’s best time of the week.

A man who was seriously injured in a car crash last Monday has died.

A ferry service connecting Clare and Kerry has seen numbers surge by almost 20% over the past two years through the promotion of the Wild Atlantic Way.

A 24-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene when his car hit a wall on the main Tralee to Listowel road near the village of Kilflynn shortly before 10pm on Saturday night.

As four asylum seekers continued to refuse food at a hostel accommodation near Foynes, it emerged yesterday a number of residents involved in last week’s protests at the centre have been transferred, some to Cork.

Three asylum seekers were yesterday refusing food at a direct provision centre in Co Limerick.

Councillors in Kerry have voted to defy national guidelines on planning by permitting access to housing alongside a number of busy national roadways.

Limerick gardaí say they are close to identifying the people who were in a car from which a known criminal fell to his death when travelling on the N69.

A man has been killed in an overnight collision in Co Limerick after he fell from one car and was struck by a second.

The Tralee bypass, one of the few major national roads projects to be undertaken since the economic downturn, and the biggest-ever roads project in Kerry, opened shortly after 2pm yesterday, to coincide with the annual Rose of Tralee festival.

The new Tralee Bypass was officially opened to traffic today.

A portion of the Tralee/Newcastle West road is expected to remain closed for the next two hours after a school bus caught fire.

BEST view of Limerick City? From The Strand hotel’s elevator. Launching from a sleekly-styled lobby, its glass walls zoom upwards to a panorama over Sarsfield Bridge, the mighty River Shannon and Limerick Castle.

Work has started on long-awaited road improvements between two towns in north Kerry.

The office of the Garda Ombudsman is investigating a road crash involving a Garda jeep and a car, which occurred at the weekend, on the same stretch of road where a garda and fireman were tragically killed four years ago.

ACTION has been demanded over traffic lights and a roundabout leading to a ‘ghost estate’ on the N69 which runs along the Shannon Estuary from Limerick.

A €97.3 MILLION bypass road, to be officially launched in Tralee today by Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, will result in an estimated 15% reduction in accidents as well as cutting traffic in the centre of the heavily congested town by a quarter.

FOR their first Christy Ring Cup final, the hurlers of Kerry will play favourites Westmeath and if they’re lucky, they’ll have the support of a couple of thousand.

ABOUT 1,500 people attended a memorial service for rally crash victim Thomas Maguire in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, yesterday.

A man in his 20s is in a serious condition after his truck overturned in Co Limerick.

A HUGE road side sign beckoned: “Clarina Village. Announcing development of Retirement Homes in Peaceful Setting.”

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has been urged to provide emergency funding to rural areas badly affected by the weather crisis in an attempt to prevent needless deaths across the country.

A SHIP with 4,000 tonnes on salt which was due into Limerick docks yesterday had to divert to Foynes due to freezing fog, forcing a convoy of 200 lorries to make an additional 80km round trip on the N69.

A man and a woman were killed tonight in two separate road crashes in the west of the country.

A pedestrian in her 40s has died after being hit by a car on the N69 in Co Kerry yesterday evening.

A man in his early 20s has died following a road crash near the town of Glin in Co Limerick last night.

A DEFENCE witness has disputed prosecution evidence at the trial of a driver charged in relation with the deaths of a Garda and a firefighter.

MOTORISTS can greatly reduce their risk of accident by being more selective about the route they take to their destination.

Motorists are being urged to take care on the roads this morning following snow, sleet and freezing rain in many areas.

Gardaí are warning motorists of deteriorating road conditions in Cork and Kerry.

A woman in her 50s has died after being hit by a car on the N17 in Co Galway this morning.

A file is being prepared for the DPP in connection with the deaths of a garda and a firefighter who were struck by a car near Foynes in Co Limerick yesterday morning.

A MOTHER who lost a son in a road accident saw another son sent to prison yesterday.

A LATE-NIGHT move by Limerick County Council to carry out work on a new water scheme failed when opponents were alerted.

LIMERICK County Council is about to start on a €16.38 million extension of its landfill site at Gortadroma in west Limerick.

MEMBERS of Limerick City Council threatened yesterday to block plans to turn Limerick docks into a major retail and commercial centre.

THE closure of Limerick Docks, which is being considered by the port company, would cost 200 jobs, the chairman of the port users said yesterday.

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