The young driver of an overloaded car which was involved in Ireland’s worst road accident should not be blamed, the parents of one of the crash victims said tonight.

Devastated communities were beginning the harrowing task today of arranging eight funerals of loved ones killed in the country's worst ever road accident.

THE mother of one of the victims in the state’s worst road accident has spoken of her heartbreak at losing a son “with a heart of gold”.

THE black hearses moved slowly through the rain as they brought the victims of one of Ireland’s worst road accidents home.

The black hearses moved slowly through the rain as they brought the victims of one of Ireland’s worst road accidents home.

A horror crash in which eight men died was today called the worst on record in the Republic of Ireland.

Prayers were offered today after eight men were killed in one of the worst road accidents in the history of the state.

The prime suspect in the stabbing of the son of publican Frank Shortt has been captured at a border checkpoint, gardaí revealed today.

A YOUNG woman was killed and her boyfriend cheated death when they were flung from their car in an accident early yesterday.

The roads of Donegal will be patrolled for the first time today by the county’s own dedicated Garda Traffic Corps Unit in a bid to halt the loss of young lives in crashes.

A Garda Traffic Corps unit is to be established in Donegal in a bid to halt a spate of road deaths that has ravaged the county.

Community leaders in Buncrana, Co Donegal, today appealed for action to cut the number of young people dying in road accidents as hundreds gathered for the funerals of those killed in last weekend’s tragic crash.

POLITICIANS and community leaders in Co Donegal have called for immediate action to prevent further road deaths in an area of the county where 17 young people have died in the past 18 months.

The Government is being urged to draw up a separate road safety strategy for Co Donegal after crashes in the county claimed six young lives this weekend.

Five young people who died in a two-car collision in Co Donegal early today were tonight named by gardaí.

AN elderly pilot narrowly escaped death after his light aircraft crashed into electricity power lines in Co Donegal last April while conducting unapproved aerobatic manoeuvres.

Alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey claimed her garda handler blackmailed her into posing as an IRA mole as an act of revenge when his wife blew her cover, the Morris Tribunal today heard.