FUNERALS FOR TWO young men who died in last weekend’s collision in Dundalk will take place later today.

The victims in the crash were: Chloe McGee, 23, and Shay Duffy, 21, both from Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan; Alan McCluskey, 23, from Drumconrath in Co Meath; Dylan Commins, 23, from Ardee in Co Louth; and Chloe Hipson, 21, from Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Chloe McGee, Dylan Commins, Chloe Hipson, Shay Duffy and Alan McCluskey. Garda Press Office Garda Press Office

They were travelling together in a Volkswagen Golf while on their way to Dundalk for a night out when they died in the crash with a Toyota Landcruiser on Saturday, 15 November.

A sixth person who was in the car, also aged in his 20s, was taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries and has since been released from hospital.

The two occupants of the Toyota Landcruiser, a man and woman in their 20s, were also taken to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

The funeral mass of Alan McCluskey will take place this morning at 10am in Saint Peter & Paul’s Church in Drumconrath, Co Meath.

He will then be laid to rest in Drumconrath Cemetery.

Dylan Commins’s funeral mass will then be held at 2pm in the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, Ardee, Co Louth.

He will be buried in Old St Mary’s Cemetery afterwards.

The funerals of Chloe McGee and Shay Duffy will take place tomorrow in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.

Funeral details have yet to be announced for Chloe Hipson, who was a student at Dundalk Institute of Technology.

Vigils took place earlier this week for the victims of the collision.

In Aughnamullen in Co Monaghan, Chloe McGee was described as a “beautiful girl, inside and out”.

She was a member of Aughnamullen GAA and PJ Markey, the club’s chairperson, said the club will stand by Chloe’s friends who were killed in the collision “not just today, but tomorrow and in all the days to come.”