A man has confessed to gardaí his role in a hit-and-run collision during the bank holiday weekend that left a toddler fatally injured.

A 16-month-old toddler is in a serious condition in hospital after she was run over in the driveway of a house in Galway yesterday evening.

A MAN in his 20s from Tralee died yesterday in a head-on collision on the Tralee/Castleisland road.

THE number of people killed in road traffic accidents over the Bank Holiday weekend climbed to eight yesterday, bringing the total for the year so far to 125.