IT SHOULD have been a day to remember — instead it became a day his parents will never forget as their 7-year-old son died after being struck by a jeep on the first day of his summer holidays. He was one of three people killed on Irish roads yesterday.

Three people - including a seven-year-old boy - have been killed in separate road crashes in counties Limerick, Wexford and Longford today.

A seven-year-old boy has been killed in a crash in Co. Wexford.

A man in his 30s has been killed in a crash in Co Longford.

Gardaí are today appealing for information on a stabbing in Co. Longford.

The roads at the scenes of two car crashes in Dublin and Longford have reopened to traffic.

Four people have been injured in an early morning crash in Co Longford.

IN recent weeks I have read and heard many discussions on our maternity services, which are in a deplorable condition.

THE Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has heard claims that there is an “unbridgeable gulf” between the findings of school inspection reports and the personal experiences of children at former industrial schools run by the Sisters of Mercy.

Friends and colleagues tonight paid glowing tribute to a young footballer who plunged to his death in an accident at his Longford home.

A 23-year-old Athlone Town soccer star has died in hospital from injuries he sustained during an accident at a derelict building in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A Longford student is this evening fighting for his life after a freak accident when a roof collapsed under him on Friday night.

Jim Morahan

THE Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is to begin public hearings into allegations of abuse at an industrial school for girls in Co Longford when it resumes in the New Year.

A man and a woman died in a single car collision on the Dublin to Derry road, north of Castleblaney in Co Monaghan.

Two people have died in separate road accidents overnight.

SURVIVORS of abuse in children’s residential institutions have said plans by the Laffoy Commission to interview people who were not abused will make nonsense of the commission’s work.

THE Laffoy Commission decision’s to solicit evidence from those with positive experience of Irish industrial schools has been branded a “whitewash” by the leader of the 800-member Survivors of Child Abuse.