THE National Safety Council is disappointed its grim prediction that more people would be killed on the roads in 2004 than in 2003 has come true.

The three people who died in two separate road accidents early this morning have been named.

Farmers and landowners have withdrawn co-operation with Kildare County Council over compulsory acquisition of property for the proposed Enfield to Edenderry Road.

A man in his twenties has been killed in a road accident in Co Kildare.