FIVE people - three women and two men - were killed on the nation's roads over the weekend and a teenager was fighting for his life last night after being knocked down.

The man who died in a single vehicle crash in County Meath has been named.

EVER opened up a book and felt like you were looking in a mirror? Your correspondent had that experience this week and, no, before you ask, it wasn’t The Great Gatsby. Or even the latest Harry Potter.

MOTORISTS have been warned to be extra vigilant after the first collision between a car and a Luas tram.

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 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.