Eight people have died in separate road accidents over the weekend, bringing the total number of fatalities this year to 301.
In Co Donegal the funerals of four of the six people killed take place in Buncrana this morning.
The six were killed in two separate crashes near Muff in the Inishowen peninsula
The first crash occurred at about 3.30am on Saturday when Gavin Duffy (22) and cousin Darren Quinn (21), Charlene O'Connor (21), Rochelle Peoples (21), and David Steele (22), from Quigley's Point, Muff, were involved in a two-car collision on the Carndonagh Road near Quigley's Point. All were killed.
The five are understood to have just spent the night in the Bailey's Nightclub in nearby Redcastle.
The driver of the second car was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry, where his condition was described as serious.
Less than 24 hours later a second car carrying five young people left the road near Muff at about 3am, resulting in the death of Brian Power, in his 20s, from Creggan, Derry.
On Friday night, a two-car collision killed Samantha Butler (20), of Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, on the N24 between Clonmel and Kilsheelan in Co Tipperary.
Thomas Creagh (49), Fairways Park, Finglas, Dublin, was also killed on Friday when his motorbike collided with a car at the junction of The Naul and Oldtown road, Co Dublin.
