A driver was on a cocaine and drink fuelled binge when he crashed his car at high speed killing the three young back-seat passengers, an inquest heard tonight.

A 21-year-old man whose heavily-intoxicated and cocaine-fuelled dangerous driving caused the death of three young men has been jailed for eight years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of three young men.

CELEBRATIONS to mark the end of school exams turned to tragedy early yesterday morning when three young Dubliners were killed in a horrific car crash.

AN eerie silence was evident around roads in Donaghmede yesterday afternoon as children who would normally be allowed play outdoors were kept inside by their parents.