Cyclist and driver killed in traffic collision

TWO men died and a third had a miraculous escape in two road accidents at the weekend.

In Co Dublin, 61-year-old cyclist Thomas Masterson, of Woodbine Drive, Raheny, Dublin, died following a collision with a car on the Howth Road near its junction with Offington.

The car was also in collision with a taxi. The male driver of the car, 23-year-old Barry Dunne, of Casana View, Howth,Co Dublin, subsequently died in Beaumont Hospital.