Detectives in County Derry are appealing for witnesses to the kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman from a house in the city last night.

A woman was fatally injured this afternoon when her car was involved in a collision with another vehicle near Clontibret in Co Monaghan.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal crash in Co Donegal today in which a man in his early 20s died.

Gardaí have confirmed that one of the men who died in a collision in Co Wicklow yesterday had escaped from Shelton Abbey open prison in Arklow a short time earlier.

Three men in their twenties were killed this morning in a road accident in Co Donegal.