The majority of Bus Éireann services are operating as normal this morning with some delays.

As tens of thousands of people take to the roads this morning after the Christmas break, drivers are being warned to take extra care.

A Kildare man who was caught with €2m worth of heroin following a Garda surveillance operation after a suspicious pallet was intercepted by custom officers has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

A Polish Meath resident who bit off part of a man’s ear in an assault in McDonald’s on O’Connell Street has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardaí are advising motorists that a one-way traffic system will be in operation today in the Navan area, to facilitate those attending the races at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

GARDAÍ involved in Operation Anvil seized cannabis with an estimated street value of €1m when they stopped a jeep in Co Meath.

THERE will be no sin bins or experimental rules in the exhibition game between the 2003 and 2004 Vodafone GAA Allstar football squads in Hong Kong next Saturday.

THERE has been an almost 40% increase in the number of people in their 30s still living at home with their parents.

NIALL COONEY’S parents breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after they finally secured State funding for his education.