Four people killed in weekend carnage

FOUR people died in weekend carnage on the roads, a fishermen drowned in a lough and an elderly man was killed in a house fire.

A man and a woman died and four others were injured following a head on collision in dense fog in Co Louth early yesterday morning. Their deaths brought to 64 the number of people killed on Irish roads so far this year.

The accident happened at 7am, three miles north of Ardee on the main Dublin -Derry road. The two dead are believed to be from Latvia. The four injured people were taken to Louth County Hospital.