A musician who died in a car crash from which the driver fled, "took the wrong lift, in the wrong car on the wrong night", a coroner said.

A drink-driver was jailed for two years and banned from driving for 12 years for causing the death of his friend travelling in the back seat of his car in Bantry last October.

A drink driver admitted yesterday he caused the death of a noted musician travelling in the back seat of his car in West Cork last October.