Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has insisted that the Coalition is not spending future governments’ money to win over voters now after launching a multibillion-euro Dublin Airport rail link to the city centre — which will not be completed until 2027.

The Government has promised that every region of the country will benefit from its €27bn capital spending programme as it denied the promised plan was an election gimmick.

A civil engineer who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has been jailed for three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A civil engineer from Cavan who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has had his five year suspended sentence overturned for being too lenient.

A drunk Cavan man who drove 7kms in the wrong direction down a dual carriage and killed a man returning from his fiancée’s birthday party has avoided jail.