Overview

• A driver, reported as being in his 40s or 50s, died at the scene after a three-car collision on the N10 at Templemartin, Co Kilkenny, shortly after 4:30pm on Saturday.
• The N10 was closed in both directions between M9 Exit 8 and the Hebron Road roundabout for a full forensic examination, with local diversions in place.
• Gardaí notified the local coroner and began a forensic collision investigation, appealing for witnesses and relevant camera footage from the N10 around the time of the Kilkenny crash.
• Separately in Scarteen Lower, Newmarket, Co Cork, a young man in his late teens died after his car left the road and struck a ditch shortly after 11:20pm; a teenage passenger was uninjured.
• The Cork victim’s body was taken to Cork University Hospital for a postmortem as Gardaí in Mallow seek witnesses and dash-cam footage; reports differ on whether other Kilkenny occupants required hospital treatment.