Gardai warn to slow down on bank holiday journeys

Gardai have warned motorists to belt-up and slow down on their homeward journeys this evening.

The number of fatalities has risen to 108 to date this year, an increase of 18 on the same period in 2015.

A man in his early 20s was killed in Co Cavan yesterday when the car in which he was a passenger struck a wall at Station Road, Cootehill.

The woman who died in a crash on Friday night when her car left the road and overturned in a field in north Co Clare has been named as Catherine Lynch (56) from Quilty.

Co Kildare witnessed three fatal collisions last week.

On Monday afternoon, a 38-year-old man died when his vehicle hit a ditch at Ladychapel, Maynooth.

On Tuesday night, a man in his 20s died when his car struck a truck on the Clane to Kilcock Road near Baltracey.

And, at 6am on Friday morning two people were injured following a crash on the slip road from the M4 onto the Kilcock Road.