Floral tributes lay at the scene in Gibstown, Dundalk, Co Louth, where five people in their 20s died and three others were injured following a two-car collision. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
A senior Garda officer has described the scene of a crash in Co Louth on Saturday night that killed five young people as “difficult” for those who attended.
Supt Charlie Armstrong said gardaí who attended then had to inform the parents and other family members their loved ones had been killed.
Supt Armstrong, who is based in Dundalk, said some of the gardaí were just three months into their policing careers.
He said the families and friends of all five victims would, in time, seek answers to how the crash happened and why they had died and the Garda investigators working on the investigation would work hard to provide those answers.
While everyone in the Garda was warned from the time they were training at the Garda College in Templemore, Co Tipperary, that they may be called upon to attend very difficult scenes, they all hoped it would never happen, he said.
“You see things you can’t unsee, the
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