Five people have been killed on Irish roads in the last twenty-four hours while two more remain in a critical condition this evening.
Two women are receiving urgent medical attention in Beaumount Hospital after the cars in which they were travelling collided head-on in North County Dublin this morning. The incident occurred at 10.30 on the Rush to Lusk road. There was no-one else injured in the incident.
Meanwhile the two people who were killed in Tallaght last night when the car in which they were travelling collided with a double-decker bus have been named. They were Ronald O'Connor, aged 50, from Birchwood Drive, Springfield, Tallaght and Stephen Cousins, aged 30, from Allenton Green also in Tallaght. The incident occurred on the Blessington Road shortly after 8.30 p.m.
The 20-year-old man who was killed after being hit by a bus in Farnagh, Co Longford has been named as Martin McKiernan from Aughnacliffe. The incident happened at 2.30 a.m.
In Co Donegal a 39-year-old woman was killed when a car collided with a bus near Termon. Three children were injured and are still being treated in hospital, one of them, a 14-month-old baby, is said to be in a stable condition. The woman was named as 39-year-old Nora Conlon from Falcarragh. She was married with three children and worked as a schoolteacher.
Meanwhile, woman in her 30s died following a traffic accident near Tullamore, County Offaly shortly before 10.00 p.m. She died after her car hit a wall at Ballykillmurray near Tullamore.