Man dies in car/horse collision

A man in his 60s has died after the car he was driving collided with a horse in Co Tipperary yesterday evening.

The accident happened at Lisboney, outside Nenagh, at around 6.15pm.

Gardaí are withholding the dead man's name until all next of kin have been informed.

Meanwhile, gardaí have named an elderly pedestrian and a young woman who died in separate road accidents in Co Donegal and Co Cork yesterday.

Eighty-six-year-old local man Hugh Magee died when he was struck by a car on the Ballybofey Road in Letterkenny just after 6pm while 19-year-old Shereen Gokul, who lived in Douglas, died when her car collided with a jeep near Carrigaline yesterday morning.