Three men die in road accidents

DESPITE a highly publicised road safety campaign, there was a sad start to the new year for three families across the country as three young people lost their lives in road accidents in the first few hours of 2005.

Three young men were killed in two separate accidents in counties Leitrim and Kildare in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Adrian McSherry and his friend Aidan Leonard, both aged 17, died when the van in which they were travelling hit a tree near Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, on the Sligo to Enniskillen road.