217 people have died on Irish roads this year
The weekend carnage began at 1am, when 27-year-old Fran Mitchell from Greystones, Co Wicklow drove a car into a pole on the town’s Bray Road near his home at Redford Park.
Less than an hour later, another single vehicle collision claimed the life of a man. Christopher Hunt, 33, from Skibbereen, Co Cork, was the driver of a car which hit a wall and pillar at Market Street in the town.