CO CORK, Ireland - A man in his 40s has been killed in tragic circumstances in a sequence of two road traffic incidents on Monday. The man was driving on the N27, Main Cork to Kinsale Road around 1:15pm Monday afternoon when his car left the road and struck a ditch. The apparently shocked and dazed driver then managed to free himself from his crashed car, and then walked into the path of an oncoming truck. The man was killed instantly. The driver of the truck was uninjured but was treated at the scene for shock. Garda forensic collision investigators conducted a examination of the scene and the road has since re-opened. (File photo).

A little over a year ago, in the small hours of the morning, a call on WhatsApp came through from a strange and distant number. It began with plus-971, and subsequent messages promised some dirt on the then-proposed takeover of Newcastle United by folks in the UAE. How they got the contact details was a mystery that was never solved. The timing was hugely suspicious too as it had coincided with a campaign of highlighting what Abu Dhabi had been using Manchester City for. Going along with it though, a file arrived, but so little added up that it was never opened. Thankfully.

Speed camera vans are now operating in hundreds of new locations all over the country. 903 new speed zones have been formally introduced on our roads. The network of speed detection services has been expanded, with over 1,300 stretches of road after reviewing nearly a decade of data. They are being brought in to clamp down on dangerous driving as speed results in one-third of road deaths. Over 1.5 million speeding tickets have been issued since speed vans were first brought in. The new zones are being introduced in areas deemed high risk, while almost 600 zones are being phased out because of improved driver behaviour in these locations. Gardaí insist speed vans are not a cash cow for the State,

A 38-year-old man has been charged with the 1994 murder of six-year-old schoolboy Rikki Neave. The youngster was found dead in woodland a few minutes' walk from his home in Redmile Walk, Welland, Peterborough, on November 29, 1994. He had disappeared after leaving home to walk to school at about 9am the previous day. Tests showed he had been strangled. Rikki's uniform was found dumped in a nearby bin. On Monday, the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said James Watson, of no fixed address, had been charged with murder. He will appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Originally Rikki's mother Ruth was accused of his murder, but she was later cleared

FOUR PEOPLE HAVE been charged under immigration legislation and several others arrested or questioned after the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) conducted two separate, multi-agency search operations at warehouses in Dublin and Meath. The searches were carried in recent weeks in conjunction with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). The first search operation, conducted on Thursday, 30 January, took place at the warehouse of an Asian food products supplier and a number of attached offices in a business park in west Dublin. Following investigations, enquiries and intelligence gathered by the GNIB, it was established

ITV has said the “door was open” for Caroline Flack to return to Love Island and that its production team “continued to offer her support” in the months before her death. The broadcaster confirmed Monday night's episode would contain a tribute to Flack put together by the team and narrator Iain Stirling. Meanwhile ITV director of television Kevin Lygo confirmed companion show Love Island: Aftersun would not air on Monday while the Morning After podcast would also not take place on Tuesday. The Love Island highlights show did not air on Saturday and the main programme was pulled on Sunday after former host Flack was found dead at her home in east London, having taken her own life. In a tribute

Shadow equalities secretary Dawn Butler said she was once escorted out of a room in parliament by security.   “A police officer came to physically escort me out of the member's tea room even though he was told I was a member of parliament,” she said.  “He later sent me a written apology.” Labour MP Naz Shah said: “You battled your way here (to parliament), broken the glass ceiling, you're actually here where there's going to be equality, where we can advocate equality for the whole of the country and that's what we're supposed to be doing. “But actually we're landing somewhere we don't have that equality.  “Even if you look at the last few weeks with the select committees, twenty select committees