‘This can’t go on. It must be sorted out’

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.

It follows a weekend in which six young people were killed in two accidents on the Inishowen peninsula.

Five close friends lost their lives in one accident between Quigley’s Point and Carndonagh on Saturday morning, on a weekend in which eight people died on Irish roads.