Gardaí are investigating a Co Louth crash involving an ambulance carrying a child.
The ambulance was in a collision with a car on the Slane Road in Drogheda at around 4.30pm on Sunday.
Describing the collision as “minor”, the Republic’s National Ambulance Service confirmed that the child, as well as members of the ambulance crew and the car driver, was treated at the scene before being transported to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
No-one was seriously hurt.
Meanwhile, a young man who suffered serious head injuries in a crash near the Kildimo area of Limerick during the Republic’s August bank holiday weekend has died.
The victim, named locally as local man Liam O’Shaughnessy, who was in his 20s, was a rear seat passenger in a car that left the road at around 3am on August 3.
He remained on life support at a specialist unit for brain injuries at Cork University Hospital until he passed away at the weekend.
A motorcyclist injured in a collision with a car outside Kinvara in Co Galway on Thursday has also died in hospital.
Kevin Smith (46) had been on life support since the collision at lunchtime on the road between Kinvara and Ballindereen.
He passed away on Sunday.
