Four young women killed and another critical after crash

FOUR young women were killed and another was left in a critical condition after a car crashed into a light truck on the Galway-Mayo border last night.

The car, in which five women, all aged in their 20s, were travelling, struck the light truck on the N17 at about 7.30pm.

Three of the women died at the scene and the fourth died at Mayo General Hospital. The single survivor was described as being in a critical condition at the hospital last night.