It is not necessary to be as sharp as PJ Mara was to imagine an election planner agreeing a date for the ribbon-cutting at this week’s opening of Ireland’s longest road span bridge.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Up to 20,000 vehicles a day will use the new N25 New Ross bypass, which is officially being opened today.

A man who claimed he could no longer carry out manual labour and was unable to raise his arm above his head without pain after his car was rear-ended has had his case for damages thrown out.

The judge was shown Facebook pictures of the plaintiff participating in a 10km obstacle course, and threw out the case.

Does tomorrow’s Leinster final between Ballyhale Shamrocks and Naomh Moling count as a local derby?

Polls will stay open until 10pm this evening in the votes to replace the four TDs elected to the European Parliament in May.

If the football career of Ireland U21 newcomer Thomas O’Connor’s doesn’t work out, there’s a fair chance he’ll end up hurling at Nowlan Park.

A preliminary report into the death of a pilot and instructor in a plane crash in Wexford last month records that witnesses say the plane disintegrated in the air.

Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to a much loved son, brother, uncle and friend who died in an air crash in Wexford three days ago.

Gardaí in New Ross are appealing for the public's assistance in locating a 31-year-old man.

Pat Kavanagh won an All-Ireland title with Kilkenny in 1969, before transferring to Borrisoleigh to work as a vet, and then play with the Borris-Ileigh club, giving him a unique insight into an ancient rivalry

Learning you’re about to make your inter-county debut is a big moment in any player’s life.

A pedestrian has died following a collision with a truck in Kilkenny.

There is a warning the economy is close to overheating.

The 39km section of the M11 goes from Gorey to Enniscorthy, which will be now be bypassed.

David ‘Stoney’ Burke turns, attention broken. He has a big hurling occasion to mind from between the posts. But the voice is familiar, all too familiar. He scans the bank of wheelchairs at the back of Croke Park’s Hill 16 goal.

A man has died after a road accident in Co. Wexford on Sunday.

Stephen Cadogan The 36th European Ploughing Championships will take place in Springpark, Ballinaboola, Co Wexford on Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31.

An inquest has heard how four members of a family died while attempting to do a u-turn on a busy national road.

Farmers recycled the equivalent of half a million car tyres over the last month, through a €700,000 government-funded initiative.

A group of lucky work colleagues in Co Wexford are celebrating this afternoon after winning €500,000.

Health Minister Simon Harris has appealed to Oireachtas colleagues and others not to restart the abortion referendum campaign now that the courts have cleared the way to repeal the Eighth Amendment.

John and Francis Brennan are “thrilled” at taking the title of Ireland’s best hotel restaurant.

Gardaí have boosted staffing to its Cyber Crime Bureau to more than 30 members and plan to clear the persistent backlog in the examination of computers in child abuse imagery cases by this time next year.

Esther N McCarthy makes time for tables, lights, and magnificent wallpaper.

I read with interest an article on Government stats showing that more children are attending multi-denominational schools this year ‘Non-Catholic enrolments up’, (Irish Examiner, February 27).

The approach of the Catholic Church to its responsibilities and aspirations can be baffling, writes Michael Clifford.

A Wexford man claimed yesterday he was in the UK when a member of An Garda Síochána saw him in a drunken disturbance at a hotel in Cork in 2015.

Relatives of four people killed in a car accident while in Ireland for a funeral have said their deaths have united family and friends across the Atlantic.

The partner of a US police officer, killed in a car crash that claimed the lives of four people in Wexford on Monday, has paid tribute to the man described as “an exemplary officer” by colleagues.

The 800-year-old Hook Head lighthouse, on the south-east coast, will host a centuries-old custom on New Year’s Day, when expert and amateur archers will take part in a traditional arrow ceremony.

A man in his 70s has died following a collision in Co Kilkenny.

Towns along the south coast are braced for flooding as Storm Brian is set to batter the country. 

Bernadette Kiely’s proximity to the Nore has had a huge influence on her art, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe spoke to esteemed US political strategist Bob Schrum about how Trump managed to win the election with a simpler message 

Junior education minister John Halligan has conceded some parents who have applied to put their children on a school bus will have their applications rejected and will have to make alternative arrangements.

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

The unique relationship between Ireland and the US will be to the forefront of this year’s Kennedy Summer School when it visits the ancestral home of JFK.

An insulin-related protein sometimes abused by body-builders, but which treats congenital dwarfism, can repair heart muscles following a heart attack.

The driver of the car was airlifted to Cork University Hospital with serious injuries and remains in a serious condition.

A religious order that ran two Magdalene Laundries told the Government that its decision not to contribute any money to the redress scheme for survivors was based on the findings of the McAleese Report.