Fine Gael's road safety spokesperson, Shane McEntee, has warned that the failure to fund measures to tackle dangerous roads is threatening lives.

DLSP have renamed their grounds Kirwan Park in memory of the late Jack Kirwan, who passed away in February of this year, and also the contribution of the Kirwan family to Palmerston, De La Salle Palmerston FC, Leinster Rugby, the IRFU and the International Rugby Board.

Electricity workers were tonight bringing in stand-alone generators to restore power to thousands of homes after a fire at an electricity sub-station.

TEAM IRELAND’S swimming coach swept an eloquent hand across the glorious spread of the National Aquatic Centre and said: “I’ve been to World Games before, I was in New Haven, in North Carolina and in Connecticut, as basketball coach and I’ve been to Monaco and to Scotland for European Games, but nowhere is there a facility better than this.”