A soldier has died after a road crash that also claimed the life of a friend of One Direction’s Niall Horan.

A soldier has died after a road crash that also claimed the life of a friend of One Direction’s Niall Horan.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a serious crash which claimed the life a man in Co. Westmeath yesterday.

One of the men seriously injured in an car crash in Mullingar today has lost his fight for life.

Gardaí in Mullingar are investigating the circumstances of a single vehicle collision outside Mullingar this afternoon.