“Another weekend of Heartache” – Pearse Doherty

Ireland’s roads claimed four more lives this weekend, three of them in Donegal. Nationally, the death toll for the year has reached 63.

A young woman was pronounced dead in Dublin after being struck by a car on the N11 in Loughlinstown in the early hours of Sunday morning.

In Donegal, the death toll for the year has now reached six.

A man in his 20s died in hospital after his car crashed near Muff shortly before 10pm on Saturday night, while two men died in a collision on the N15 near Donegal Town on Saturday afternoon. They’ve been named locally as 30 year old Caolain Bushe from Letterbarrow, and Leon Shovlin who was in his 20s and originally from Ardara.

Donegal TD Pearse Doherty, says it’s been another weekend of heartache…………..

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