A man has died after he got into difficulty while swimming off the Mayo coast yesterday.

Luas passengers are being warned to watch out for delays this morning.

There has been a collision between a Luas and a car in Tallaght.

The 02 in Dublin is to be renamed 3Arena.

The Luas cross-city construction works have been halted after bones were unearthed during digging.

The major emergency plan for Dublin has swung into action as heavy rain and flooding has the capital in its grip this evening.

Road conditions across much of the country remain perilous and motorists are again being urged to avoid unnecessary journeys.

The Luas Red Line in Dublin has fully reopened in both directions after a road crash at the Blackhall Place stop.

In Dublin, a section of the Luas Red Line has been closed.

IRELAND’S five Olympic boxers have arrived in Bugeat, France, for the penultimate training camp in advance of the Olympic Games.

BERNARD DUNNE will be more than an interested spectator at the Kings Hall in Belfast on Saturday night when Wayne McCullough relaunches his boxing career against Kiko Martinez.

JOHN DUDDY will have a new opponent when he headlines the Celtic Tigers bill at the National Stadium on October 20 and matchmaker Tomás Rohan says it may be a man who has fought for a world title.

Pavarotti credited his Dublin performance in 1963 with his international success. Jim Morahan traces the connections.

NEIL SINCLAIR re-launched his career with a spellbinding victory on points over Latvian welterweight Sergejs Savrinovics on Saturday night in Cork.

THERE has not been a punch thrown in anger but already Cork’s Billy Walsh has made a dramatic impression on the forthcoming professional boxing show at Cork City Hall, erasing talented Dubliner, Patrick Hyland, from the programme.

BERNARD DUNNE came face to face with his next opponent when the current wonder boy of Spanish boxing, Kiko Martinez, made a dramatic appearance in the ring before John Duddy’s fight at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

BARRY McGUIGAN had advice for Bernard Dunne last night on the eve of tonight’s European super bantamweight title defence against Reidar Walstad at The Point — get stronger, make a couple of defences, make some money, let the top guys beat each other up and then move in on a world title.

AFTER taking the Big Apple by storm, John Duddy has finally decided to return to his roots for a belated European professional debut and a build-up to a European title shot.

Votes cast in central Dublin constituencies could be counted in the Point Depot for the first time ever and may clash with a Girls Aloud concert, it emerged today.

PROMOTER Brian Peters did his utmost to play it down after the three-round demolition of Yersin Jailauov at The Point, but Bernard Dunne could be moving rapidly towards a shot at a world title.

SHORT route wins for the Walsh brothers, a successful re-launch for Neil Sinclair and first visits to the canvas for Paul McCloskey and Stephen Haughian resulted in thrill-a-minute entertainment for boxing fans at Cork City Hall on Saturday night.

PASCHAL COLLINS, who trains Billy Walsh, insists the Corkman would already be a world champion if he had met him 10 years ago.

NEIL SINCLAIR hopes to relaunch his professional boxing career by beating Arek Malek from Poland at Cork City Hall tomorrow night.

BERNARD DUNNE will defend his European super bantamweight title against Yerson Jailauov from Kazakhstan at the Point Depot on March 25 in the first of four planned fights this year.

BILLY WALSH will fulfil a lifetime ambition when he tops the bill in Cork City Hall on February 17.

DANCE superstar Michael Flatley is “feeling a bit better” and is hoping to return to his county Cork home sometime next week after a mystery illness laid him low in a London hospital.

BERNARD DUNNE takes his boxing career to a new level when he fights former champion, Esham Pickering, for the European Super Bantamweight title at The Point tonight.

Tickets for Saturday night's European Title fight between Ireland’s Bernard Dunne and Esham Pickering at The Point is now sold out.

BERNARD DUNNE is under no illusion about the enormity of the task when he faces former champion, Esham Pickering, for the European Super Bantamweight title at The Point on November 11 where all the 7,000 available tickets are sold out.

Aiken Promotions today announced that Pink's forthcoming concert at The Point in Dublin has been moved from November 14 toNovember 16 2006.

AROUND 50,000 people are expected to flock to Kerry this summer for a new seven-day international festival.

The Sugababes are set to make their first Irish performance with new member Amelle Berrabah at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards at The Point on Thursday, February 2.

John Hughes, musician and Manager of The Corrs will be presented with the Meteor Industry Award at the 2005 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, hosted by Ed Byrne in The Point on Thursday, 24th February.

Kylie Minogue is to play a fifth concert during her visit to Dublin in April.

World famous tenor Plácido Domingo will make a long awaited return to Ireland next year in a gala concert at The Point in Dublin on March 9.

TICKETMASTER stand to make up to half a million euro in service charges alone from ticket sales to Madonna’s concert in Slane Castle in August.

Damien Dempsey has walked away with two awards at the 2004 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, hosted by Dara O’Briain at The Point.

PROMINENT social activist Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has pledged to use a €100,000 humanitarian award to further her work with immigrants and young people.

The Hothouse Flowers, one of Ireland’s finest and hardest working bands, have confirmed that they will perform at the star-studded Meteor Ireland Music Awards in The Point on Monday, March 1.

Queen of the Jungle Kerry McFadden and Miss World Rosanna Davidson will present this year's Meteor Ireland Music awards next month.

Feisty chart star Pink told today how she would love to do a Britney and share a kiss with Madonna.