Two women and man killed in horror crash

TWO women and a man were killed in a collision between a car and a van on the Dublin to Belfast motorway yesterday, bringing to 246 the number killed on Irish roads so far this year.

The driver of the car, 22-year-old Gerard McLoughlin, was killed along with Celine McArdle, also 22, and 21-year-old Elaine McGeogh. All three were from Dundalk.

Their car careered across the M1 motorway near Monasterboice into an oncoming van.