Flowers and toys mark fatal road crash

Flowers and a white teddy bear marked the scene of a crash which left a young boy dead and his mother seriously injured in Laois on Thursday night.

The boy was named locally yesterday as Ciaran Treacy, 4, from Portarlington. He had been travelling in a car with his mother Gillian and brother Sean, 7, when it collided with another car at Ballymorris, Portarlington, at around 8.40pm.

The two boys were taken to the Midland Regional Hospital at Portlaoise where Ciaran was later pronounced dead. Sean is understood to have suffered minor injuries.