Gardai still searching for hit-and-run motorist

Gardai have named the two young men who were killed in a road accident in Co Kildare.

The pair died when the car they were travelling in went out of control and struck a wall on the outskirts of Naas.

Their deaths brought the total number of lives lost since the start of the year to 196.

The driver of the car has been named as Thomas Smullen, who was in his early twenties and from Rathangan and the passenger was Declan Kearney, who was in his early thirties and from Carbury.

Elsewhere, Gardai in Longford are continuing a definite line of inquiry into the fatal hit-and-run that claimed the life of 64-year-old, Eamonn Hoey from Moydow.

Gardai say that they are looking for a small white car, which was spotted heading towards Ballymahon on the main road from Longford at about the same time as the incident occurred.