At least five people were killed and three injured after two vehicles collided in Ireland’s County Louth, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday at around 9pm.

The Guardian quoted police as saying the five people who died – three men and two women – were on their way to Dundalk when their Volkswagen Golf collided with a Toyota Land Cruiser on the Ardee road at Gibstown.

The sixth occupant in the Golf was a male, who was being treated for non-life threatening injuries on Sunday, as were the two occupants of the Land Cruiser, a male and a female.

The taoiseach, Micheál Martin, said on Sunday he was “numbed and shocked".

Simon Harris, the tánaiste, or deputy prime minister, said a “veil of deep sadness has come over our country" and paid tribute to first responders. “O

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