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Four people have died in separate road crashes since yesterday evening

A man has been arrested following one of the deaths in Strabane, Tyrone.

FOUR PEOPLE HAVE been killed on roads across the country since yesterday evening.

The four separate incidents happened in Mayo, Meath and two in Tyrone.

At around 2.30am, a woman in her 50s was killed in a single vehicle road accident in Cookstown in Co Tyrone.

An hour previous to that police arrested a man in Tyrone after a 50-year-old man died following a crash involving a lorry and a van.

Meanwhile, a man died after he was hit by a car in Meath at 1:30am.

He was pronounced dead at scene and a post mortem is due to be carried out.

Elsewhere, a man in Mayo was killed after the car he was driving hit a fence in Castlebar at around 7.30 yesterday evening. He was taken to Mayo General Hospital but died soon after.

Read: Road accidents account for almost 40% of child deaths in Ireland>

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    Mute Barry O'Neill
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    Oct 16th 2014, 10:11 AM

    They will continue to suffer while all of the smaller breweries keep popping up and making a superior product. They need to either start buying them up or move towards making better beer. People sitting at home on a Friday night with a six pack will mostly go for craft beer now as opposed to the watery stuff we drank for years.

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    Mute James Keane
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    Oct 16th 2014, 11:40 AM

    Spot on Barry. Although I hope they focus on their own offerings as oppose to buying the smaller craft brewers out.
    Franciscan Wells doesn’t taste te same since they were bought out by Coors!

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    Mute glenoir
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    Oct 16th 2014, 10:42 AM

    Guinness is no longer owned by Guinness but by diageo who have got rid of half the staff and treated them awfully

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    Mute Julia85
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    Oct 16th 2014, 1:26 PM

    I have several family members in Guinness and they are definitely not treated appallingly.

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    Mute Frank M Cgrath
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    Oct 16th 2014, 10:05 AM

    Ill drink to that

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    Mute Gearóid Ó Murchadha
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    Oct 16th 2014, 10:09 AM

    Surely if you’re making billions in profit 1.5% isn’t a big deal?

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    Mute Aindriú de Domhain
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    Oct 16th 2014, 2:04 PM

    Not that I’d wish to see people lose jobs, especially in Ireland, but I have little sympathy for Diageo.

    I’ve seen them and their marketing up close and personal, and they way they try to ingratiate themselves with Irish identity and buy a good name for themselves by associating with charities. The absolute cynicism of Arthur’s Day and the complete disinterest they had in the public chaos it caused was what really turned me away from them and their products. It’s profit at all costs there, and then maybe try to have a fig leaf of corporate social responsibility, if it suits.

    If they actually invested in their products instead of churning out low quality drinks like they do, then they wouldn’t be in this mess.

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    Mute Eddie Sheridan
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    Oct 16th 2014, 5:36 PM

    I run a pub in upstate NY and it will not be long before sales drop here in the states too. Overpriced and dropped sponsorship of all things Irish. They think they can coast on the brand name. Sad really.

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    Mute John Heffernan
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    Oct 16th 2014, 4:05 PM

    Craft Beers, are on the way up, Erdinger, sweet Jesus it’s good….

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    Mute Endeus™
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    Oct 16th 2014, 10:47 AM

    The Dropping well…..

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