Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a hit-and-run in Dublin.

One person has died in an overnight road accident in Dublin.

A youth involved in a 170km/h car race in which a priest and two other youths were killed on the M50 has been jailed for two years by Judge Desmond Hogan at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TWO people died following a road accident near Lifford in Co Donegal yesterday and a man has died in hospital following a car crash in Killarney last week, bringing to 13 the number of people to die on roads since Thursday.

ROAD crashes claimed the lives of three more young men over the bank holiday weekend, bringing to 10 the number of accidental deaths since the start of summer on Thursday last.