GARDAÍ across the country are investigating three single-vehicle car accidents — two of which claimed the lives of young men.

A man in his 30s has been killed in a car crash in Co Louth, while a six-year-old girl remains seriously ill after a crash on the Cork-Limerick road, in which a one-year-old boy died.

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

Taoiseach Brian Cowen said workers’ efforts to keep the country running in the big freeze showed the true sense of public service.