Five teenage boys are dead after a head-on smash on an Irish motorway.
The youngsters, who were all in one car travelling the wrong way down the M9, died at the scene in Co Kildare in the early hours of Sunday.
The passengers in the second vehicle are understood to be members of the same family who were travelling to Dublin Airport, with images from the scene showing a suitcase by the roadside.
Emergency services were alerted to a vehicle travelling southbound on the M9 northbound carriageway at junction 3 at around 3am.
Gardaí confirmed the bodies of the five teenage men have now been
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