A 35-year-old woman and her ten-year-old son died in a car crash near Dunleer Co Louth this afternoon.
The single-vechicle crash happened at about 2.30pm at Cangy on the old M1 south of Castlebellingham. It is believed the car struck a wall.
The woman's husband, believed to be in his 30s, was driving the car. He was taken, along with the couple’s four-year-old daughter and an unrelated 11-year-old girl who were also in the car, to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. The 11-year-old is believed to be in a critical condition.
The road is closed pending an exanination of the area by Garda forensic collision investigators. Diversions are in place.