From left: Chloe McGee (23), Shay Duffy (21), Dylan Commins (23), Alan McCluskey (23) and Chloe Hipson (21). Photograph: The Irish Times/Montage of handout imagery from An Garda Síochána

Five young friends died in a road crash in Co Louth over the weekend, with three others taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The group of friends are understood to have been going to socialise in Dundalk, when the Volkswagen Golf they were travelling in collided with a Toyota Landcruiser just after 9pm on Saturday in the townland of Gibstown.

Chloe McGee (23) from Carrickmaross, Co Monaghan

Ms McGee was a woodwork and construction teacher at Ó Fiaich Institute, Dundalk.

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