Three questioned over fatal hit-and-run

Three men were being questioned by police today about a hit-and-run accident in Co Antrim in which a cyclist was killed.

Three men were being questioned by police today about a hit-and-run accident in Co Antrim in which a cyclist was killed.

Seamus Graffin (58) of Oriel Road in Antrim was killed when he was knocked off his bike on the Castle Road at Randalstown on St Stephen's Day afternoon.

Meanwhile, two men were seriously injured when the car in which they were travelling crashed off the Castlewellan Road at Clough, Co Down.

Three others in the car during the early morning accident were less seriously hurt. Policed appealed for motorists to take care on the roads at this time of the year.

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Also in Belfast, a grief-stricken woman today said a final goodbye to her husband and daughter who died during a spate or road tragedies over the Christmas period in Northern Ireland.

Tina McGuigan sobbed through Requiem Mass for her husband John (30) and eight-year-old daughter Lorna.

They were killed after the car they were travelling in crashed into a tree on Crumlin's Ballyhill Road on Friday morning.

The McGuigans' two other daughters, Saoirse (4) and Stacey (5) were left fighting for their lives in hospital after the crash.

After Mass at St Oliver Plunkett Church in Lenadoon, west Belfast, father and daughter were cremated at Roselawn Crematorium.

They were the first of five people to be killed over the Christmas period - bringing the death toll on Northern Ireland's roads this year to 125.