Motorist, 27, found dead after car struck ditch

A 27-year-old man died after his car hit a ditch adjacent to a junction of a main road in East Cork early yesterday.

The body of Diarmuid Fogarty from Lisglasheen, Killeagh, was discovered by a routine Garda car patrol on the outskirts of Youghal at 3.20am.

It was believed he had been driving his green Toyota Avensis north from Red Barn Strand when he hit the ditch at the junction of the main Cork-Youghal Road.

Gardaí say the accident occurred sometime between 12.30am and 3.20am.

Mr Fogarty was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to CUH for a postmortem.

The deceased was a son of George and Helen Fogarty who have four other grown- up children, Finbarr, Siobhán, Deirdre and Úna.

He became the 88th person to die on Irish roads this year, five more than the same period for 2012.

Gardaí have asked anybody who may have saw the Toyota Avensis to contact Youghal Garda Station at (024) 92200.

Meanwhile, the funeral service of a 28-year-old man killed in a crash in Canada earlier this month will take place at the Island Crematorium in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, today.

Chris Martin, from Ballinakila, Adrigole, Beara, died in a single-vehicle crash in Springstein, a small community southwest of Winnipeg, at 11.30am on Jun 6.