Fifteen people remain in hospital following a road crash involving a mini-bus and a car in Co Kerry yesterday.
The accident happened on the Killarney-Tralee road shortly before 6pm.
Four adults and 11 children were taken to hospital for assessment and treatment by a fleet of ten ambulances.
Throughout last night, six of those most seriously injured were transferred to Cork University Hospital by two coast guard and and two Air Corps helicopters which had been deployed to the incident.
Those being treated in Cork include a man in his 40s and five children; two girls and three boys aged three to 12.
One of the boys, aged three, is being treated for a serious head injury; another, aged 10, for serious head and abdominal injuries sustained in the crash.
Nine others; three adults and six children, the youngest just 16 months, were treated at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.
Gardaí are piecing together the sequence of events leading up to the crash.
Forensic road crash investigators completed their examination of the scene last night and the road at Farranfore has reopened.
Gardaí are also appealing to witnesses to the crash to contact them.
