Gardaí in Wexford are to interview the 16-year-old driver of a car which struck six pedestrians over the weekend, leaving a teenage girl in intensive care.
The accident occurred in the Spawell Road-Carcur area of Wexford town on Sunday evening, when a vehicle driven by the youth ploughed into a group of six teenagers aged between 13 and 18.
The youth, who is understood to be local, was driving the car with the permission of its owner, who is a 30-year-old Lithuanian national. He was also in the vehicle when the accident took place, but was not injured.
Five of the six teenagers were hospitalised. One of those injured, a 13-year-old girl, remained in the intensive care unit of Wexford General Hospital yesterday, while two others were being treated in the paediatric ward.
The remaining teenagers have been released from hospital.
Also in Co Wexford, a 22-year-old local man was killed on Monday night when his Volkswagen van collided with a tractor near Kilmore.
Mr Mark Thorpe, from Drinagh, died after his van collided with a tractor and trailer at Randalstown, Ballycogley, at around 10.35 p.m. Both vehicles are understood to have been travelling in the same direction.
The driver of the tractor suffered minor injuries.
Earlier on Monday in Cork, a man in his late 30s was fatally injured following an accident where his vehicle struck a ditch and overturned into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
He was named last night as Peter Watson, of Ballinvarrig, Youghal, Co Cork.
There were no other injuries in the accident which occurred shortly before 5 p.m. on the Quarry Road at Youghal, Co Cork.