A number of people have been hospitalised.
A number of people have been hospitalised after a car crashed into a crowd of young people outside a chip shop in Co Offaly last night.
Gardaí say it happened on O'Connell Street around 20 past midnight.
A youth in his late teens, was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, and has since been released.
Multiple casualties were taken to the Midlands Hospital in Tullamore, though gardaí say their injuries are non-life-threatening.
Others were given first aid at the scene.
Gardaí in Birr are appealing for eyewitnesses have asked people who were on O'Connell Street at a quarter past midnight last night to come forward.
Psychotherapist Stella O'Malley lives next door to the scene -- and saw the aftermath:
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