The widowed father of rugby international Eoin Reddan may have to abandon plans to see his son play in Leinster’s Heineken Cup match in France tomorrow, after being the victim of a hatchet-wielding intruder.

The Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee on Transport has released a report which shows the cost of building new roads between 2000 and 2003 was almost €400m more than originally projected.