A man was killed early yesterday in a road accident in Co Kilkenny. Mr Seamus Hickey (21), of Ballygowan, Kilmaganny, died after the car he was driving crashed into a ditch.
Meanwhile, the elderly pedestrian killed outside his home in Co Clare on Sunday night was named as Mr William Keane (71), of Killard Road, Dunbeg. He was struck by a van and died in hospital.