Four more road deaths brings toll this year to 70

FOUR more people died on Irish roads this weekend, bringing to 70 the number of Irish people killed on the roads so far this year.

A man in his 20s was killed in the early hours of yesterday morning when the car in which he was a back seat passenger collided with another vehicle at Ballmahill, Castlemahon in Co Limerick.

The young man, who hasn’t yet been named, was pronounced dead at the scene.