Gardai are appealing for witnesses to a crash in Dungarvan Co Waterford which claimed the lives of three men.
Six people, who were in one car, were seriously injured and had to be airlifted to hospital.
The two-car collision happened on the N72 in Dungarvan yesterday morning.
The second car went on fire following the impact and it took Gardai a number of hours to confirm the deaths.
The stretch of road where it happened was closed overnight.
Local Councillor Seamus O'Donnell says it is a dangerous road and he has been campaigning for a lower speed limit on it: