A consortium of Irish businessmen and builders is reportedly planning to seek permission for a €2bn commercial and residential development in Bray, Co Wicklow.

A drug dealer who was involved in the vicious assault of a taxi-driver who was hit with a brick while face down in a river has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A HORRIFIC weekend on the roads has seen the numbers killed in traffic accidents increase to nine — just 12 days into the new year.

Four people have been killed on the nation's roads today.

A man and woman were killed at Enniskerry Road in Bray this morning.

A drug dealer who held a taxi-driver's face down in a river while a co-accused hit him with a brick has been jailed for eight years in consecutive sentences by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The body of a man in his late 20s has been removed from the River Dargle in Bray, Co Wicklow.