Victims in Donegal road accident are named

A teenage boy was among three people killed in a two-car collision in Co Donegal near the Northern Ireland border, gardaí said tonight.

John Shields, 15, of Letterkenny, and Owen McGinley, 31, of St Johnston, died when their Honda crashed near Burt, between Letterkenny and Derry, at 7am.

Ethna Quigley, 40, of Letterkenny, sole occupant of the other car, also died.

Two other men travelling in the Honda were injured. One of them was ill but stable while the other was seriously ill in Letterkenny General Hospital.

Six units of the fire brigade attended the scene and the crash was being investigated by gardai in Buncrana.

The accident happened on a stretch of road which is currently being upgraded.

Officers appealed for anybody who saw the crash to contact Buncrana Garda station.