Three young men died in a crash in Co Cork in the early hours of this morning.
The three, aged 17, 20 and 21, died when their car plunged into water at Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere at 2am. Two other occupants of the car managed to escape from the car and survived.
The three victims were taken to Cork University Hospital.
The deaths are the latest tragedy to take place on the State's roads, which have claimed six lives since yesterday morning.
A 34-year-old woman died in a crash in Co Wexford at 7pm last night. Her car left the road and hit a tree stump at Kildavin, Murrintown. She was taken to Wexford General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
An eight-year-old girl died yesterday afternoon in hospital hours after her seven-year-old brother was killed in a crash in Co Kildare.
Another sibling remains in a serious condition at the paediatric unit of Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise following the crash and the children's mother is in a serious condition in Tallaght Hospital.
The tragedy happened after the car their mother was driving was in collision with a lorry at around 8.30am yesterday in the townland of Walterstown, near Nurney.
The HSE said the lorry driver, who was travelling alone, was not treated in either Naas or Portlaoise hospitals. A Garda spokesman said the road was closed for most of the day while officers from the traffic corps carried out investigations into the cause of the crash.
Meanwhile, gardaí have named the victims of three separate Galway and Cork road collisions.
The woman who died on February 22nd following a road collision at The Prom, Salthill was Aileen Feeney (22) of Ballymeeney, Dromore West.
The man who in the collision at Creggs Road, Glenamaddy, Galway February 23rd was Martin Brennan (81) of Williamstown, Co Galway.
The man who died following at Coachford on Wednesday is Tim Roche (35) of Coachford in Co Cork.
