Weekend death toll 'appalling': Byrne

Dublin- The Chairman of the Road Safety Authority, Gay Byrne, has described as appalling the deaths of seven people on the roads this bank holiday weekend.Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Bryne said he did not know the circumstances of these accidents, but that he suspected speed was a factor.

Gardaí have named the two men killed in yesterday's collision in Lixnaw in Co Kerry as David Flynn, 36, Bunagarha, Listowel, Co Kerry, and 19-year-old Owen McGillicuddy, Gurtinard, Listowel, Co Kerry. The man killed in a collision at Drimoleague in Co Cork on Friday has been named as 38-year-old Peter Dukelow from Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork.

The lady killed in yesterday afternoon's collision on the R336 at Rusheen in Galway was 79-year-old Rita Crean from Frenchville, Grattan Road, Co Galway. Saturday evening's collision victim on the N25 at Grange, Ardmore, Co Waterford was 23-year-old David Wall of Crough, Colligan, Waterford. The man killed on Saturday afternoon in Cloone, Co Leitrim, was 63-year-old Patrick Kilkenny of Tooma, Cloone.

And the male pedestrian killed in Durrow, Co Laois, yesterday was Michael Walsh, 43, of Tully, Connemara, Co Galway.