Crash near Naas causes long tailbacks on N7 motorway

An early afternoon crash caused major disruption on one of the country’s busiest roads on Friday.

A section of the N7 motorway was closed for a time due to a crash between junction 8 Johnstown and junction 9 Naas North in Co Kildare. Delays had stretched as far back as junction 5 Castlewarden, about 7km further back.

Not too far away, traffic was also busy approaching Punchestown for the second day of the 2019 Punchestown Racing Festival.

Prior to the incident on the N7, a broken-down bus caused traffic delays in Dublin city centre when it came to halt on College Green in front of Trinity College.

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Public transport

Elsewhere, Irish Rail has warned that there will be transport disruptions across rail services over the May bank holiday weekend.

Services affected include the Dart, northern commuter trains into Dublin and Dublin to Cork services. The disruptions are to accommodate major track improvement works, mainly focusing on rail lines between Newbridge, Co Kildare and Ballybrophy, Co Laois.

Waterford rail services will also be affected, with bus transfers between Newbridge and Sallins on Saturday and Sunday.

Dublin Bus has said bus routes will run without disruption, with a Sunday timetable in place on the bank holiday Monday.