Two young males have been killed and another man seriously injured in a head-on collision in Co Cork this evening.
The crash is reported to have happened just outside the town of Midleton in East Cork on the Cloyne road at 6.20pm. Both of the deceased were in the same car.
The injured man, believed to be in his in his late 40s, was traveling in the other car and has been taken to to Cork University Hospital. The deaths bring to 111 the number of people killed on Irish roads this year to date.