Gardaí have named two men who died at the weekend when their car hit a minibus carrying 15 passengers near Athlone.
They were Lukasch Klincewicz (26) and Maximillian Klincewicz (17) from Cushla Grove, Athlone. They died in the collision at about 1.15am on Sunday on the main N6 route at Ballydangan outside Athlone.
The man killed in a crash at Ballineen, Co Cork on Saturday was named by gardaí today as 29-year-old Patrick O'Farrell of Bantry Road, Dunmanway.
Seven men and one woman were killed in four crashes at the weekend, in the worst 48 hours for road deaths since the start of the year.
A man was killed in a single-vehicle collision in Cork, and another man died in a crash in Antrim.
Three men and a woman were killed in what gardaí said was an attempt at overtaking on the Borris-in-Ossory-to-Roscrea stretch of the N7 in Co Laois on Saturday.
William Quane (34) from Monaska, Clonlara, Co Clare, and Seán O'Donoghue (37) from Lisaleen, Patrickswell, Co Limerick, were on their way to the Ireland-Italy rugby match in Croke Park when their car was struck by another coming from the Dublin direction.
Both men were killed in the crash. A third man who was also travelling in the car was in a serious condition in hospital yesterday.
The other car was driven by a Polish man David Dziemianowicz (21). He and passenger Marika Rossi (24) were killed.