The funerals of two of the young women killed in Tuesday's crash in Co Kildare are taking place in Carlow today.

Four young friends took delight in imagining all the places their lives would take them, but their promising paths ended in a place of grief and sorrow.

A private service will take place in Carlow this afternoon for the four women who died in a road accident in Co Kildare on Tuesday.

Four young lifelong friends killed in a road accident, and their friend who is seriously injured in hospital, had been planning to spend the night together before the fatal accident in Kildare.

A college that the four Kildare crash victims had attended has said it is "devastated at the loss of four beautiful young girls."