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. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
Three of the young men in the Volkswagen Golf that crashed on Saturday night were lifelong friends whose families live close to one another outside Ardee, Co Louth, according to local taxi driver Leonard Malone.
Dylan Commins and Alan McCluskey, both aged 23, died in the collision, as did Chloe McGee (23) and Shay Duffy, from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, and Chloe Hipson (21), from Lanarkshire, Scotland, who was living in Carrickmacross.
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