A man was killed in an accident involving a lorry at a quarry yard in Co Monaghan yesterday. Gardai named him as Mr Eugene Leonard (27), a single man from Tullyharnet, near Castleblayney.
An eight-year-old boy, who was struck by a car after getting off a school bus on Wednesday evening, has died at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. He was Padraic Kenny, of Greenwood Park, Edenderry, Co Offaly.