Two die in north Dublin crash

Gardaí investigating a fatal crash on the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne Road at Ward Cross this morning have released the names of …

Gardaí investigating a fatal crash on the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne Road at Ward Cross this morning have released the names of the two people who died.

Daire Maxwell (16) of Reask, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath and Donna Beresford (39) of Kippure Park, Finglas, died in the crash involving a car and a rigid truck at around 9am.

Daire was a passenger in the truck beign driven by a man who was taken to James Connolly Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Ms Beresford was the drive of the car invlolved.

The N2 was closed from the White House Public House to Wards Cross for a period this morning as Garda Forensic Collision Investigators examined the scene.