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Deaths bring roads toll to 111 this year
The number of fatalities on the State's roads has risen to 111 this year following the deaths of a man and a woman in crashes in counties Wexford and Donegal yesterday, writes Steven Carroll.
The woman, a passenger in her 70s, was fatally injured in a two-vehicle crash at Dun Lúiche, Falcarragh, Co Donegal, yesterday.
Meanwhile, a 43-year-old man has died in Co Wexford following a crash involving two trucks on the N11 Dublin to Wexford road.
The crash occurred on the southern side of the village of Camolin, between Enniscorthy and Gorey, at about 11am yesterday.
The driver of the other vehicle is understood to have been badly injured and is at Wexford General Hospital.
Co Donegal crash victim named
Gardaí investigating the fatal crash between a schoolbus and a car in Co Donegal on Monday have named the 34-year-old man who died in the incident.
Bernard Doherty of Coolboy, Letterkenny, died in the crash on a dangerous bend at about 4.30pm at Kilross on the main Ballybofey to Letterkenny road.
The Bus Éireann bus was travelling from Derry and had collected 28 secondary school students from the Royal and Prior in Raphoe when it collided with the car, which was travelling from Ballybofey.
No environment agency for NI
Northern Executive Minister Arlene Foster has ruled against creating an environmental protection agency in Northern Ireland, writes Gerry Moriarty, Northern Editor.
The DUP Environment Minister decided against such an agency because it would have cost more than £2.5 million and taken four years to establish.
Instead, Ms Foster said she would restructure and strengthen the powers of the Environmental Heritage Service within her department to protect the built heritage and natural environment, as well as improving legislation to tackle pollution.
"I am opposed to the setting up of yet more quangos where unelected people take decisions on behalf of the people of Northern Ireland," she said.
Sinn Féin environment spokesman Daithi McKay said Ms Foster's decision did not stand up to scrutiny.
SDLP environment spokesman Tommy Gallagher said Ms Foster had failed the greatest challenge she was ever likely to meet in her ministerial career.
Farmers' representatives welcomed the Minister's decision not to create an independent agency while environmental parties and organisations such as the Greens and Friends of the Earth deplored her decision.
Motive sought in Armagh shooting
Police are trying to establish the motive for the shooting of a 23-year-old man in Armagh shortly before midnight on Monday.
One line of inquiry is that the man was the victim of a "punishment" shooting although police said it was too early to say if there were any paramilitary involvement in the attack.
The man, a Protestant, was shot a number of times at Mullacreevie Park in Armagh, which is almost exclusively nationalist. A gang of four men called to his house and shot him. He suffered wounds to his knees and upper back and was last night in a "stable condition" in hospital.
Land conveyance deed judged void
A court has ordered a deed of conveyance relating to a valuable plot of land in north Co Dublin to be set aside.
Judge Jacqueline Linnane in the Circuit Civil Court made an order declaring that a deed, drawn up by Dublin solicitors Doyle Hanlon, was void. The plot of land, at Carr's Lane, Balgriffin, Co Dublin, has reverted to the estate of the late Kathleen Molloy.