A male driver in his 60s has been killed in a car accident, while travelling home from a night at his local bingo club. Seven of the dead, from three parishes across Inishowen, were in a car which collided with another vehicle on a notorious stretch of road before ploughing into a third.

Residents are trying to come to terms with the tragedy that occurred at around 10:40pm last night and is being described as one of the worst road accidents in the history of the state.

Local people who attended the scene of the accident said the road was slippery but conditions were nothing out of the ordinary.

Gardai (the Police Force in the Republic of Ireland) said eight young men, all in their late teens or early 20s, were in a black Volkswagen Passat. The seven passengers died, while the driver was said to be in a stable condition after suffering serious injuries.

It is believed the Passat clipped a silver Renault but carried on down the road for a couple of hundred yards before crashing into the red Toyota Corolla driven by the man in his 60s.