28 people have died after a tourist bus overturned on the island of Madeira.

A minute of silence was held today at University College Cork graduation ceremonies as a mark of respect to two Cork students who died in a car crash in the Algarve.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has not yet released the names of the two young Irish women killed in a collision between a car and train in Portugal.

Two Irish students have been killed in an accident in southern Portugal when the car in which they were travelling was involved in a head-on collision with a train.