Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after three women in their seventies were killed in a crash in County Limerick yesterday evening.
Two cars were involved in the crash outside Loughill village at around 6:30pm.
The driver of one of the cars and the driver and passenger in a second were all pronounced dead at the scene.
A third woman in the second car was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have dash cam footage to come forward.
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Women’s rights campaigners are calling on two major Hollywood studios to stop filming in Northern Ireland over its strict abortion laws.
It comes after Disney and Netflix threatened to withdraw from the US state of Georgia over a proposed abortion ban.
UK pro-choice campaign Abortion Rights is warning that Northern Ireland’s abortion ban is harsher than that proposed in Georgia – with women facing life imprisonment for having a termination.
Chairwoman Kerry Abel said the studios should “consider Northern Ireland in the same light” as Georgia or Alabama.
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The US is set to impose new tariffs on all goods coming in to the country from Mexico.
President Donald Trump said he aims to use to the taxes to curb illegal immigration.
A 5% tariff will be imposed on June 10th and will “gradually increase until the illegal immigration problem is remedied."
President Trump has declared a national emergency over what he claims is a crisis at the US southern border.
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A cruise ship captain involved in a fatal crash with a tour boat in Budapest has been arrested.
Hungarian police say the 64-year-old Ukrainian is suspected of endangering water transport leading to a deadly mass accident.
33 South Korean tourists were on board the tour boat at the time.
Seven people have been confirmed dead and 21 remain missing.
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The HSE's warning of the threat smoking poses to children on World No Tobacco Day today.
The number of young people who smoke here has dropped sharply in recent years from 23 per cent in 1998 to 8 per cent in 2014.
It says while this is welcome, it still means around 1 in 10 children and teenagers aged 10-17 are smoking.
Meanwhile, the Irish Cancer Society and Irish Heart Foundation are calling on the Government to ramp up efforts to help smokers quit.
Four-in-10 smokers have tried to kick the habit in the last 12 months.
