Four men and baby die in weekend road accidents

Four men and a baby girl died in road accidents over the weekend. All four men were killed in single-vehicle collisions.

Early yesterday, a Co Galway man died when his car went out of control and struck a wall at about 4.30 a.m.

Mr Michael Lynch (26), from Eanachmheáin, Béal a Dangan, Carraroe, died in the accident at Costello, Co Galway.

Also yesterday, Mr Pádraig Tydings (22), from Lisselton near Listowel, died in a car crash at Ahimma, Ballybunion, Co Kerry. He was a back-seat passenger in a car which lost control and overturned at about 12. 50 a.m.

The other occupants, a man in his late teens and a man in his early 20s, were taken to Kerry General Hospital.

They are understood not to be seriously injured.

Mr Tydings was pronounced dead at the scene.

The car, a Subaru, was badly damaged and appeared to have travelled on its roof for some time.

Gardaí at Listowel are investigating the incident.

On Saturday morning, a 19- year-old east Cork man was killed when the car he was driving crashed into a pier and a derelict house on the main Charleville to Kilmallock road in north Cork.

The young man was the sole occupant of the car and was killed instantly in the collision which happened at about 3 a.m.

Gardaí said they would not be releasing the man's name in accordance with the wishes of his family.

Meanwhile, a baby girl lost her life in a car crash in Craigavon, Co Armagh, on Saturday.

The one-year-old died child when the car in which she was travelling collided with another vehicle on the Mullagh Head road shortly before 8 p.m.

Also on Saturday, a man died in an accident on the N4 near Ballinalack, Co Longford.

Mr Joseph McStay (74), Beech Park Drive, Foxrock, Dublin, died when his car went out of control, left the road and crashed in a field.

The accident happened at about 12.15 p.m about one mile outside the village on the Westmeath border.