Four people died as a result of traffic accidents over the weekend. The dead included two women in a three-car crash in Donegal in the early hours of Saturday morning.
They were named as Alice Mullen (22), Millbrae, Carndonagh, Co Donegal, and Kelly Doherty (20), Carromore, Glentogher, Carndonagh. Both were passengers in a car involved in a collision at Bankhead, Redcastle.
Elsewhere, gardaí in Carlow have named the six-year-old boy who died following a car accident on Friday at Ballybar, Carlow. He was Gerard O'Donoghue, from Ballybar.
A young Co Mayo woman died in St James's Hospital, Dublin, on Saturday from injuries received in a traffic accident on the N5 Swinford bypass on Friday night. She was Angela Barrett (26), Clogher, Belmullet.
The deaths brought to 89 the numbers killed on the roads so far this year. That is just one person more than the equivalent period last year.
Meanwhile, legislation is to be brought forward to allow toxicology reports be carried out on accident victims after death.
The proposal, first mooted by former minister for transport Séamus Brennan, is in response to statistical information which shows that many of those killed on the roads are young people who die at the weekends between 9.30pm and 3.30am.
This morning the National Safety Council and the department of the environment in Northern Ireland will jointly launch a new television advertising campaign entitled "Stop. Look. Listen. Live!".
It is aimed at promoting road safety among young people .
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