11 killed on roads over bank holiday weekend

Eleven people have been killed in separate road accidents on both sides of the border over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

Eleven people have been killed in separate road accidents on both sides of the border over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

This afternoon gardaí named the 40-yaer-old motorcyclist killed on the N67 around 2km (1.25 miles) outside Belturbet last night as Sean Clial of Doogarry, Killeshandra, Co Cavan .

He died following a collision with a car.

Elsewhere a 63-year-old man died this morning following a single vehicle road collision in Co Kildare.

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Gardaí were alerted to the area where they found the body of the man trapped under a car.

The incident happened beside the Bord na Mona railway line at Killinthomas, Rathangan during the early hours of the morning.

Four Polish men died instantly when the car they were travelling in smashed head-on into a truck on a road outside Bandon, Co Cork, on Friday night.

They were Sylwester Szezyrow, 25, Radoslaw Nowak, 23, Rafal Corski, 28, and Andrzej Wojciechowski, 27, who had been living in Ballincollig, Co Cork.

The lorry driver was treated for minor injuries. Elsewhere, a man in his mid-20s who died when the car he was driving collided with two stray horses on a road outside Navan, Co Meath, on Saturday morning, was named as 26-year-old Martin Coen, from Lacken, Kilmihill, Clare.

The crash happened at Garlow Cross at about 6am. Both animals also died at the scene.

In the north, a 19-year-old woman died in hospital following a road crash in Co Tyrone on Saturday night.

Janeen Black from Aughafad Road, Pomeroy, was fatally injured in a two-car collision on the A5 Ballygawley to Aughnacloy road.

Three teenagers were killed in Castlereagh, on the outskirts of east Belfast, early on Saturday morning. Nineteen-year-old twin brothers and their friend, aged 18, all died in the single vehicle incident on the Ballygowan Road.

The weekend deaths bring to 124 the number of people killed on the roads since the beginning of the year. The equivalent figure in Northern Ireland is 39.