A 50-year-old man has died after the jeep he was driving crashed in Co Sligo in the early hours of this morning.

Twenty-one students at Athlone Institute of Technology, who had been told last month that their degree programme in audiology had been cancelled, will be able to complete the course.

A woman was killed when she was hit by a car as she walked along a road in Co Sligo yesterday evening.

Gardai have named the man who died in a road accident in Co Sligo yesterday evening as 71-year-old Michael Kelly from Crossmolina, Co Mayo.