Two young GAA players killed in single-vehicle accident

TWO young Donegal GAA players were killed in a horrific road accident in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The victims, named locally as life-long friends Gary McLaughlin, 21, from Ballymoney, Burt, and Darren Downey, 19, from Moness, Burt, were killed in a single vehicle crash at Newtowncunningham on the main Letterkenny to Derry Road.

Gardaí were yesterday trying to piece together the men’s last movements after their crashed car was spotted by an early-morning motorist in the laneway of an unoccupied house shortly before 7.30am.