Appeals against the €1m plus damages awards made to dozens of Portuguese workers who claimed they lived in terrible conditions when they were building a section of the N7 motorway have been struck out by the Court of Appeal.

Gardaí are appealing for information after a coach and a lorry collided in Dublin on Thursday.

The incident involving a truck and bus happened on the N7 just after Newlands Cross yesterday evening.

Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene.

A man was arrested for dangerous driving after his car flipped on the N7 in Co Kildare.

Two Dublin men were stopped by gardaí in a car which was found to contain 150kg of explosives, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Gardaí have issued a fresh appeal for information on a crash on the N7 Naas Road in Co. Kildare last month which followed a burglary in Athy.

Latest: Gardai are investigating a fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the Naas Road at approximately 6.20am this morning.

A group of workers who were paid less than the minimum wage and housed in “deplorable” conditions on a multi-million-euro road project have won their right to damages from the companies that employed them.

Since the election was called, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has pounded two distinct, peculiar routes, writes Jimmy Woulfe

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan yesterday urged people with information on the “gruesome” murder of Kenneth O’Brien to come forward.

A man was killed overnight in a two-car collision in Co Tipperary.

Clare County Council recently voted through the incorporation of the Northern Distributor Road and the re-zoning of lands in south east Clare into the Clare County Development Plan.

We are not good at joined up planning in this State, writes Brian Lucey.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a taxi hijacking in Naas overnight.

Gardaí are investigating an aggravated burglary at a Dublin warehouse, during which thousands of cases of whiskey were stolen.

The long awaited Newlands Cross flyover in Dublin will open to traffic on Thursday.

The Newlands Cross upgrade on the N7 will be officially opened by Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe later.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to a hit-and-run in Co Kildare which has left a man in his 30s in hospital.

A 55-year-old woman has appeared in court charged in connection with the seizure of €150,000 worth of heroin in Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested three people in two separate drug operations in Dublin and Donegal.

A violent Dublin gang suspected of a series of robberies have used the train to make their getaway.

A violent Dublin-based gang has avoided Garda roadblocks by taking trains as getaway transport after a series of aggravated burglaries in Co Limerick.

Nearly 500 people have been caught speeding today as part of Operation Slow Down.

A fire on the N7 northbound into Dublin has been brought under control.

A water main at Newlands Cross in Dublin has burst for the second time in less than a week causing severe flooding in the area.

A bereaved father, who became involved in a €2m cannabis operation to cover the bill for his daughter's funeral, has received a ten year prison sentence.

Relief. It was written all over his mother’s face, but for little Theo Costelloe, it was smiles all round.

It is every parent’s worst nightmare. A knock on the door in the middle of the night to ask if you are missing a child.

Over recent weeks San Francisco has been experiencing something that may have resonance for Ireland, and in particular Cork.

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious road traffic collision at Junction 3 of the N7 in Dublin.

Two men have been arrested in west Dublin following a dramatic cross-country car chase.

A male pedestrian has died after he was struck by a vehicle on the N7 in Dublin this evening.

Emergency services are at the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on the N7 in Dublin, which has claimed the life of one person this evening.

The construction sector could register its first annual rise in output this year since 2006.

Work on getting rid of the last bottleneck between Dublin and Cork is getting underway.

Gardaí are questioning two men in connection with a drug seizure in Limerick.

More than 1,000 jobs are to be created in two road projects that will see the last major traffic bottleneck between Dublin and Cork removed.

The government has signed a €282m contract to upgrade parts of the N7 and N11.

A man has died following a road accident in Co Limerick.

Three separate investigations into missing persons are being carried out by gardaí.

Fears are growing for the safety of two people who have separately been reported missing in the Midlands in recent days.

An investigation has been launched into the disappearance of a 30 year old woman from Co Laois.

Gardaí in Kildare say they are gravely concerned for the welfare of the missing teenager Cormac Clare.