Mother and daughter returning from holiday among three killed in N2 car crash

Gardai said the crash happened at about 12.30am on the N2 a few minutes north of Ardee as a group travelled home to Donegal from Dublin Airport.

The women were named locally as Mairead Mundy and Rachael Cassidy Battles, both aged in their late 30s, and friends and neighbours who lived beside each other in the village of Bruckless, south Donegal.