A MOTORCYCLIST died after a collision during a charity fun-run in Co Waterford yesterday. The 38-year-old man was escorting the charity event when his bike crashed after hitting another motorbike on the N25 between Dungarvan and Youghal.

At least two people were taken to hospital with injuries according to police. Around a thousand motorcyclists from the Midlands Cycling Club in Athlone were taking part in the event to raise money for people with cancer.

This brings the death toll on Ireland's roads to 201 this year and is the 100th road death since Gay Byrne was appointed chairman of the Road Safety Authority 99 days ago today.

Forty yachts depart on Round Ireland race

MORE than 40 yachts set off on the BMW Round Ireland Yacht Race 2006 yesterday afternoon.

The race started at Wicklow Head and the 1,130km race is expected to take three to six days to complete.

All boats are graded according to size and given a handicap.

The record is three days, four hours, 23 minutes and 57 seconds, set by Colm Barrington in 1998.

Body of woman found washed up on Kerry beach

JOGGERS discovered the body of a woman washed up on a beach in Kerry yesterday morning. The woman, found on Rossbeigh beach, was wearing black tracksuit bottoms, a blue and white horizontal striped t-shirt and black low-heel shoes.

She was believed to be in her 40s, five feet five inches in height, with brown hair.

Gardai were not treating the death as suspicious, but anyone with information is asked to contact them at Caherciveen garda station.

HSA tries to allay fears about drug tests in workplace THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) yesterday moved to allay fears about the introduction of workplace drug-testing.

The proposals are contained in the new Health and Safety at Work Act.

Drugs advisory groups have expressed concern that recovering drug addicts could be sacked under the new laws.

But the HSA said that the legislation was only in its consultation phase and still had a long way to go before it was introduced.

Final paragraph of Felix McKenna interview

DUE to a glitch in the editing process, the final paragraph of an interview with the head of the Criminal Assets Bureau, chief superintendent Feliz McKenna, was cut short in last weekend's Sunday Tribune.

It should have read: "CAB will not be short of work in the coming decade, as evidenced by just one large room in the agency's Harcourt Square, Dublin complex, filled with dozens of cardboard file-boxes containing hundreds of thousands of documents . . .all related to just one case.

'The real work is sitting down and going through the boxes meticulously, ' says McKenna. 'The smoking gun could be at the bottom of the box.'" We apologise for the error.