Gardaí have named the three young men who died in a crash in Co Mayo yesterday evening.
The three were travelling towards Ballinrobe on the N84 at around 6.20pm in a Mitsubishi Lancer car that collided head-on with a tipper truck.
Gardai officially named them today as Patrick Morley (24) from New Street, Ballinrobe, his cousin Aaron Morley (20), also from New Street and Jonathan Donovan (21) from The Neale, Ballinrobe
All three men, delivery men for Irish Pride Bakery, were pronounced dead at the scene. Three other people who were hurt in the crash have been released from hospital.
A total of 318 people have died on the State's roads so far this year.
Parish priest Monsignor Tom Shannon, who was among the first on the scene yesterday evening, said a sense of numbness had swept across Ballinrobe.
"It was a sad and lonely night last night," he said.
"The grief was palpable. In the case of the parents, it was a sore grief and a hurting grief.
"The people that gathered there were numb, mostly silent, the occasional word. It was mostly sad and sombre."
The town suffered another triple tragedy in 1984 when three members of the same family drowned in a boating accident on nearby Lough Mask.