West Cork mourns as two men who died after car plunged into river named locally

A local Garda on duty at Glengarriff, West Cork at the start of the Kenmare road near where a car entered the water in the early hours of Monday morning and two men died. Picture Dan Linehan

Two men from West Cork have died and a third man is in a critical condition in hospital after the car they were travelling in left the road and plunged into a river.

The deceased have been named locally as Tadhg Murphy, aged 19, from Glengarriff, and Michael Bowen, aged 40, from Ahakista.