The 15-year-old boy who died this morning in a crash near Oughterard, Co Galway was driving a stolen car, according to gardaí.
Two passengers in the car were also injured when the car apparently hit a ditch. The dead boy has not yet been named.
Two other people died in road accidents overnight. A man died in hospital after a road accident on the Clonsilla Road in Blanchardstown and a third man died in a crash near Ardee in Co Louth.