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Dublin Fire Brigade and Gardai are at the scene of a truck that's rolled over on the M50.
It happened at Junction 3 at the M1 on the northbound side.
The slip road has been closed to facilitate emergency crews.
They are also dealing with a fuel spill on the road.
A Garda investigation is underway after the discovery of an illegal pub in Co. Kildare.
Officers raided the suspected shebeen in Athy yesterday evening after being alerted through social media.
A member of the National Public Health Emergency Team says people's behaviour is changing in relation to Covid-19.
It comes as those testing positive for the virus has declined in the last seven days from 8.9 to 5.8 percent.
Ireland could get the first batch of a Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
Pfizer Ireland managing director, Paul Reid, believes his company's jab could be approved for emergency use at the end of November.
France is the second western European country to record one million coronavirus cases.
It's registered more than 42-thousand new infections in the last 24 hours.
The US, India, Brazil, Russia, Argentina and Spain have already hit that milestone.
Donald Trump will be casting his vote in the US Presidential election later.
He's been back on the campaign trail, speaking to crowds of people in two rallies in Florida last night.
Rail services through Connolly station in Dublin will be suspended this Bank Holiday weekend.
It's due to work on the final phase of Iarnrod Eireann's major 120 million euro City Centre Resignalling Project.
The psychiatric unit at Naas General Hospital has been locked down after a patient, who was transferred from Dublin without undergoing a Covid-19 swab, infected the entire ward.
Kildare's Draft Register of Electors for 2021/2022 remains open to new entrants, and amendments.
It will come in to effect on February 15th, and will remain in place for every vote for the following 12 months.
Kildare County Council have advised that there will be maintenance carried out on the R445 Dual Carriageway today Saturday October 24th.
KCC advise that grass cutting and other maintenance works will be carried out on the R445 Naas to Newbridge Dual Carriageway..
Kildare's Community Covid-19 Helpline opens at 9am this morning.
It is offering help on non-medical, non-emergency matters on 045 980 202 and 1800 300 174.
The helpline operates 6 days a week, between 9am and 5pm.
The Chief Medical Officer says we need to get cases of Covid-19 down to below 100 a day to avoid another lockdown.
The current average is 1200 cases a day - with level 5 restrictions in place for the next 6 weeks.
700 jobs have been announced nationwide by Just Eat.
The food delivery company is recruiting additional couriers to meet growing consumer demand due to Level 5 restrictions.
The workers will service expanded delivery areas in urban locations.
The National Virus Reference Lab has announced it won't be able to process any covid-19 tests over the next two weekends.
The UCD facility says the decision has been made due to unavoidable staff shortages.
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