Minister Simon Harris says measures to make people leave the car at home, including potential bus lanes on motorways, should get full consideration.

Christmas FM returns to the airwaves at lunchtime today, playing continuous Christmas classics right up to December 25.

All I Want for Christmas is 24-hour cheerful festive songs.

With less than a month until Christmas day, it’s finally socially acceptable to indulge in festive tunes - and Christmas FM has just powered up the radio tower to provide 24-hour cheer.

Crimestoppers are appealing for information on the theft of a railway signal cable which severely disrupted DART services in Dublin today.

Educate Together have been confirmed as patrons at five of nine new secondary schools planned for 2015 / 2016.

Rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan walked the walk yesterday for a green school with the wow factor.

There's no getting away from it now - you may as well embrace the festive season.

The Department of Education is considering applications from eight prospective patrons for control of a dozen new schools to be opened in the next three years.

Those in receipt of rent supplements will see a change to their payments from next Monday.

A Wicklow councillor has said the M11 south of Dublin needs to be upgraded after two closures already this year, due to flooding.

The demise of the golf membership entrance fee in Ireland has become a reality as we head into 2013, writes Brian Keogh

Gardaí say they have dismantled a significant drug trafficking operation in north Wicklow.

Twenty people have been arrested in Bray in Co Wicklow over the past seven days as part of a major operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs.

Electricity has been restored to thousands of homes and businesses affected by a significant outage in parts of Dublin and Wicklow this afternoon.

ESB crews are working to restore power after an outage in parts of Dublin and Wicklow this afternoon.

Longford goalkeeper Damien Sheridan won the MBNA All-Ireland Kick Fada title at Bray Emmets GAA Club this afternoon.

HIKING and walking are now the most popular activity pursuits by tourists in Ireland, with upwards of two million people, including home and overseas visitors, taking part each year.

Some 35 jobs are to be created at a cosmetics company in north Wicklow, it was announced today.

A MOTHER was recovering from surgery yesterday after being repeatedly stabbed at her Wicklow home on Monday night.

Thousands are expected in north Wicklow over the next two days for the opening weekend of one of the country’s biggest beach festivals.

Planners today gave the green light for a €2bn residential, retail and leisure complex in north Wicklow.

THE Park Academy Childcare Group in north Wicklow has invested €4 million into developing a childcare and after-school facility in Eden Gate, Delgany.

“I WILL never have the words to explain to you how it feels to have the person you build your life around taken from you so needlessly.”

GARDAÍ believe they have dealt a significant blow against a major drug trafficking outfit in south Dublin after seizing up to €6 million worth of drugs.

Dublin Bus is selling off 50 second-hand double-decker buses in a bid to modernise its fleet on the capital’s streets.

A north Wicklow man who sexually abused two nieces over 30 years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill at the Central Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ have named the drug dealer whose body was discovered near a beauty spot in Roundwood, Co Wicklow.

Fears that a cluster of the debilitating brain disease vCJD had been uncovered on the east coast were today dismissed after an investigation revealed three cases were not linked.

A pensioner has gone missing in north Wicklow.

THE luxury Ritz Carlton group is to open a hotel in Ireland for the first time next year.

REGULAR DART users on Dublin’s southside face disruption to weekend services from today until next September due to further upgrade works on the line.

Seán McCárthaigh

GARDAÍ were last night visiting the homes of families of missing men who match the general description of a man whose body was found face down in a stream in a north Wicklow nature reserve.

St Michael’s Hospital in Dun Laoghaire is reportedly planning to close its accident and emergency facility, according to the Labour Party.

DART services between south Dublin and north Wicklow have been disrupted this morning after vandals damaged the overhead wires upon which the trains run.