A man was being questioned last night in connection with a hit-and-run road incident in which a man was killed just outside Monaghan town early yesterday morning.
It was one of three fatalities in the Republic in the past 48 hours. A 27-year-old man died and four others were injured, two critically, when his car hit a tree near Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, early on Saturday and a 58-year-old woman, who was with a four-year-old child, died when she was hit by a lorry on Batchelor's Walk in Dublin city centre, on Saturday at around 10 a.m.
In the hit-and-run incident, the body of a 41-year-old man, Mr Ronan Flynn, a married father of two, was discovered shortly after 1 a.m. on the roadside at Gortakeegan, near his home just outside Monaghan town. Gardaí later arrested a man who was found trying to burn a car.
In the Carrickmacross crash, Mr Stephen Gaffney (27), from Killygoan, a townland near Carrickmacross, died when the car he was driving hit a tree on the Carrickmacross-Ballybay road, in Nafferty townland. Four passengers, all from Monaghan town, were injured. Two were in a critical condition.