Black weekend as five die on roads

FIVE people have died in just 24 hours in one of the blackest weekends ever on Irish roads.

Four were killed on Saturday and a fifth person died as a result of a road accident in the early hours of yesterday morning. A number of others are being treated in a number of hospitals for injuries.

A 20-year-old Polish man was charged in Longford with drunk driving after a crash left a compatriot dead. Jaroslau Debik, 19, from Shannonside, Rooskey, Co Roscommon was a back seat passenger in the Honda Civic which went out of control and hit an ESB pole at Battery Road, Longford just after midnight on Saturday.