Overview
- The victims were named as Chloe McGee, 23, Alan McCluskey, 23, Dylan Commins, 23, Shay Duffy, 21, and Scottish student Chloe Hipson, 21, who died when a Volkswagen Golf collided with a Toyota Landcruiser on the L3168 near Dundalk on November 15.
- Services were held Friday for McCluskey in Drumconrath and Commins in Ardee, with Saturday funerals for McGee and Duffy in Carrickmacross, following an earlier gathering in Dundalk for Hipson and community vigils across Louth, Meath and Monaghan.
- President Catherine Connolly attended multiple services as large crowds lined streets and families offered symbolic tributes reflecting each young person’s life.
- Gardaí reported a separate fatal collision on Ardee Main Street on Friday that closed the road and diverted Commins’ funeral cortège.
- A sixth occupant of the Golf and two people in the other vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and investigators have appealed for witnesses and dash-cam footage as formal inquiries continue.