A nine-month-old baby boy has become the youngest person to die as a result of a road crash in Ireland this year.
He has been named as Harvey Desmond from Macroom in Co Cork. He died in the early hours of this morning at Cork University Hospital, two days after the crash.
He was one of six people injured in the collision which happened at Ballytrasna on the main Macroom to Cork road on Tuesday afternoon.
A car carrying the child and two other children was involved in a head-on collision with another car in which a woman and another child were travelling.
Five ambulances and a medical team attended the scene while firefighters had to use cutting equipment to free the injured.
Harvey Desmond was treated in the hospital's intensive care unit but died today.
His mother, the driver of the other car and one other child remain in Cork University Hospital where their conditions have improved.
Two other children who were injured have been released from hospital.
Gardaí at Macroom have renewed their appeal for witnesses to the accident to contact them on 026-20590.
Vicitms of Kerry crash named
The two motorcyclists who were fatally injured in a road traffic collision at Knocknagoshel, Co Kerry, on Sunday morning have been named.
They were 32-year-old Marek Olszowka and 31-year-old Kazimierz Kawa.
Both men were originally from Poland but living in Hertfordshire in England.
They returning from a Harley-Davidson rally in Killarney when their vehicles collided with a BMW car, which was travelling towards Castleisland.
