Six people have been killed in road accidents, three of them in the North.
Mr John Justin Murray (30), of Mullaghacaw Crescent, and Mr James Sweeney (32), of Parklea, both Portstewart, Co Derry, died in a head-on collision on the Portstewart to Coleraine road yesterday. A 21-year-old Newry motorcyclist was killed in an accident with a car at Millvale Road in Bessbrook, Co Armagh.
A pedestrian in her 70s was fatally injured in an accident with an articulated lorry in Mitchelstown, Co Cork. She was pronounced dead on arrival at Cork Regional Hospital.
A man in his 20s from Donegal was killed and a woman was in a critical condition last night after a two-car crash at Crohyboyle, Co Donegal.
Sister Mercedes Somers (75) died in an accident just hours before she was to celebrate her golden jubilee. She was a passenger in a car which was in collision with a lorry at Kilbride Cross on the main Carlow-Wexford road on Thursday.