The accident occurred when a freight train used for carrying timber crashed into an empty enger train

Iarnród Éireann CEO upbeat on plans for the Cork network. 

Two teenage girls have been described as disturbed and upset by the incident on Thursday.

Details of the near-fatal incident at the level crossing located between Ballyhaunis and Claremorris are revealed in a new report by the Railway Accident Investigation Unit.

An investigation by the Railway Accident Investigation Unit found the piece of broken rail had only been installed less than a month earlier.

Bus transfers are operating between the impacted stations

The new timetable took effect on Sunday

The incident took place shortly after 3pm on the train line near Ballyhaunis

Gardai were called to a train near Templemore station in Co Tipperary.

This is due to an incident on the line between Ballybrophy and Portlaoise.

The woman killed has been named locally as Jessica McLoughlin from Sligo town

The judge said he is considering a custodial sentence for the matter

The empty unscheduled train was travelling from Limerick Junction to Heuston Station

A second man received treatment for his injuries at the scene of the incident in Co Meath.

A member of Translink staff was assaulted during the incident, the PSNI said.

Photographs of the train line’s history will launch at Belfast’s Lanyon Place Station and Dublin’s Connolly Station on Thursday.

Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene of the incident near Bray train station

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is expected to address concerns around 'tunneling works' set to be carried out for the Dublin Metrolink.

The front carriage of a Dutch train that landed on a sculpture of a whale’s tail after ploughing through the end of an elevated section of track has been painstakingly lifted clear of the artwork and lowered to the ground.

A salvage operation is under way to lift a runaway train off a sculpture of a whale’s tail, where it landed after ploughing through the end of an elevated section of track.

A train driver in the Netherlands has escaped injury after his front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpture of a whale’s tail.

A freight train has derailed in Phoenix, Arizona, setting a bridge on fire and causing its partial collapse. Video images showed huge flames and thick black smoke rising into the air and train carriages on the ground near a lake.

A enger train crashed into a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims at an unmanned railway crossing in eastern Pakistan on Friday, killing 20 people, including seven women, officials said. At least eight pilgrims were injured.

Many Irish Rail engers were delayed for several hours today as the 3. 30pm train to Cork suffered a mechanical fault between Thurles and Limerick Junction.