ANTI-DRINK driving campaigners last night demanded that former minister Dr Jim McDaid be subjected to the full rigour of the law after he was arrested for driving the wrong way down on a Kildare dual carriageway.

A man is being questioned by gardaí in Co Kildare, following a €100,000 drugs seizure.

Cash transit firm Securicor has offered a €100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those behind yesterday's armed raid in Co Kildare.

Gardaí today launched a murder inquiry into the death of a young woman, whose body was found in Co Kildare.

IT will be weeks before the investigation of what is potentially one of the biggest illegal dumpsites in the country is completed, experts admitted yesterday.

The garda detective who arrested former army sergeant John Crerar for the 1979 murder of Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy has a told a jury that he had arrested Mr Crerar because DNA evidence positively linked him to Ms Murphy.

FESTIVAL fans tasted the cream of the musical crop at Punchestown on Saturday.

Gardai in Co Kildare are appealing for information on a missing woman following the disappearance of Anne Kelly from Lackenview, Naas.