Road accident victim named

Gardai have named one of the four people who died on Irish roads yesterday.

Patrick Sweeney, of Ballintugher in Co Sligo, died at half past one yesterday afternoon when the van he was driving struck a dumpster.

He was just one of four people who died in a series of road accidents yesterday, another man was killed on the Cork-Tipperary border when his car crashed into a pillar while yesterday morning a woman pedestrian died after being knocked down in Churchtown in south Dublin.

Another pedestrian was also killed in Co Louth when he was hit by a mini-bus just north of Drogheda.