Five killed in road accidents this weekend

Five people died in three separate road accidents in Donegal, Mayo and Galway during the weekend.

Three of the fatalities happened last night when two men and a woman died in a collision between a number of cars and motorbikes in Co Donegal.

Several more people were injured in the pile-up, which happened at Ballintra, on the Ballyshannon to Donegal road, shortly after 6pm.

Elsewhere, a 22-year-old man died when the car he was travelling in crashed and overturned in Kilmaine village, near Ballinrobe in Co Mayo, yesterday morning.

An 18-year-old man also died in hospital yesterday afternoon from injuries he sustained when the car he was travelling in struck a wall on the Dublin Road in Galway city on Saturday morning.