Two people were killed in road accidents in the Republic this weekend, and two more in the North. A young man drowned in Kilkenny, and the drowning of a Sligo man was reported from Laos.
In Co Longford gardai called in the assistant State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, to carry out a post-mortem on the body of a man found dead yesterday.
A 19-year-old woman died after the car in which she was a passenger collided with another vehicle on the main Carlow-Castledermot road at Prumpelstown Cross just after 4.30 a.m. yesterday.
The woman, named as Ms Ciara Fox from Woodlawn Grove, Waterford city, was travelling with two others. Her body was removed to Naas Hospital.
On Saturday morning Mr Brian Kearns (18), from Cloonlee, Knock, Co Mayo, died after the vehicle in which he was a front-seat passenger struck a bridge at Ballyglass, Claremorris.
In the North, a boy and a 22-year-old man were killed in separate road accidents. Gerard Doherty (9), from Suffolk Avenue, west Belfast, was knocked down by a car in Suffolk Road, and died of his injuries in hospital. The man died in a two-vehicle collision in the Waterside area of Derry.
The body of a man was recovered from the Nore river at Canal Square, Kilkenny, yesterday. The 19-year-old Cork man was reported falling into the river at 5.20 a.m. Following a search his body was recovered at 2.45 p.m. and taken to St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny.
A 24-year-old Sligo man, named as Mr Michael Mannion, from Strandhill, died in a drowning accident in Laos, south-east Asia, last Monday. The victim's father has flown to Laos to take home his son's remains, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Also yesterday, gardai began investigating the death of a 47-year-old man whose body was found at the bottom of a stairway in a flat over a shop at Dublin Street, Longford.