Councillors offering up sympathies

WESTMEATH County Council held a minute's silence at the start of Monday's council meeting after four people from the Mullingar area were killed and injured in a crash in the south of Spain.

- GRAINNE NI AODHA and BAIRBRE HOLMES

Independent Cllr Michael Dollard said those involved in the crash would have been “very well-known people around the town”.

He said it will take “a long time" for the people of Mullingar to “understand how three young lives can be taken away so quickly, especially people away on holiday”.

He described what happened as “a tragedy for all of the families", and added it shows how “fragile human life is".