Donegal car tragedy: Four lives lost

In a society that imagines itself civilised it is necessary to express great sympathy with the families of the four young men who died in a car crash in Donegal over the weekend.

That grief will resonate throughout West Donegal — and far wider too — as the deaths of four young men with, as that cutting cliche goes, their lives ahead of them is particularly cruel. Every road death is a tragedy but when four lives are lost in one incident it seems especially tragic.