Truck drivers are blocking more than 300 lorries from leaving Dublin Port in a protest over the Budget.

The sacrifices the Irish people have made cannot continue into the last two years of this Coalition’s tenure. I hope we will have a return to Fianna Fáil, for these reasons:

The Dublin Port Company is to invest €110m in enhancing the country’s largest port over the next five years.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has insisted that a new Dublin Bus airport service, revealed this morning, will not replace plans for the Metro North.

SOME of the 21,000 Junior Certificate home economics students reached the end of their exams with papers that were considered fair yesterday afternoon.

THE primary reason given for opposition to the Mater hospital site for the proposed National Children’s Hospital centres on traffic congestion in Dublin 7.

A multi-vehicle crash on the M1 in Dublin has been cleared.

Dublin's Port Tunnel has fully reopened.

A private bus company has won its High Court challenge against the Minister for Transport's decision that there was no competition between the company and Dublin Bus on a route operating between Swords and Dublin city centre via the Port Tunnel.

Private bus and coach operator Aircoach has today officially launched a new route from Dalkey to Dublin Airport.

The National Roads Authority (NRA) is rejecting proposals to allow taxis to use the Dublin Port tunnel for free.

VAT is to be added to State-owned toll roads from July 1.

Gardaí are having to divert traffic from part of the M50 in Dublin this morning.

I WISH to congratulate Peadar Ó Laoire (Letters, May 22) for highlighting the “daft” proposal to spend millions digging a rail tunnel connecting Heuston and Connolly stations in Dublin when, as he says, a virtually unused rail connection between the two stations already exists.

A man has died after the truck he was driving overturned on the M1/M50 interchange in Dublin this morning.

The northbound bore of the Port Tunnel in Dublin is closed due to an incident.

Bus Eireann have said most of their services in the east of the country are operating with some delays, but some local services operating on secondary roads are disrupted.

The weather continues to play havoc with road conditions in the east which are very difficult with most bus services there delayed.

Bus Éireann has issued a new update this morning, warning that road conditions in the east of the country continue to be very difficult.

Homeowners were tonight counting the cost of a massive clean-up operation after severe thunderstorms left dozens of homes and roads flooded across the capital.

Rush-hour motorists face traffic chaos today after severe thunderstorms flooded roads across the capital.

Transport costs across a range of services are to increase from today.

A private bus company has settled their High Court proceedings against the Minister for Transport over a decision allowing Dublin Bus to change a route between Swords and Dublin Airport with the alleged effect of threatening the private company's business.

Motorists will have to pay two new increases in charges on tolled motorways in the coming months.

Weather change from global warming is unleashing fresh threats to our environment and landscape, writes Donal Hickey.

PANICKED motorists had to be rescued from waters up to four feet deep in parts of Dublin after the weekend’s record rainfall trapped them in flash floods.

Motorists are being urged to drive with extreme care this morning as many roads are awash with water after flash flooding.

Extreme flash floods in Dublin have caused long delays, gardaí warned tonight.

A PRIVATE bus company has begun legal proceedings in the High Court aimed at overturning a decision of Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to alter an existing passenger road service from Swords to Dublin, the 41X bus route.

A cross-party group of TDs and Senators today criticised state agencies over their failure to adequately tackle the frustrating levels of traffic gridlock in Dublin.

DUBLIN traffic could be plunged into chaos by a planned strike by staff at the Port Tunnel scheduled for the end of this month.

Dublin’s Port Tunnel could be forced to shut down next month pushing hundreds of HGVs back on to the city streets in a row over workers’ pay.

The Green Party says massive new road projects proposed for the Greater Dublin region should be a priority of the Government.

A 17-year-old boy appeared in court today for leading gardaí on a half-hour high speed pursuit where at one point he allegedly drove the wrong way through the Dublin Port Tunnel.

Closures of Dublin’s Port Tunnel because of system failures were today branded unacceptable and a waste of taxpayers’ money.

TDs and Senators will question the National Roads Authority (NRA) today about recent closures of the Port Tunnel.

A PROJECT planning expert who helped execute Ireland’s successful hosting of the World Special Olympics has hit out at overspending on big state ventures following a critical report on the cost of regenerating Ballymun.

Dublin suffered six hours of traffic chaos today after a single truck overturned on a key route near the city's docklands.

The truck that overturned truck at East Wall Road near the Point Depot has been cleared.

An accident in Dublin's docklands has caused major traffic disruption in the city this morning.

The controversial Poolbeg Incinerator has been given the green light.

IRISH drivers are not used to motorways and will have to learn how to drive safely on them, according to the National Roads Authority (NRA).

Officials from Dublin City Council and the Dublin Fire Brigade are to attend the Labour Relations Commission later this week to discuss safety procedures in the Dublin Port Tunnel.

DUBLIN PORT COMPANY yesterday signed a deal with Topaz Energy Group, which will lead to the opening of Ireland’s largest service station at the gateway to the Port Tunnel.