Northern Irish man killed in horror crash in Dublin

It is understood the incident is being investigated by the Garda Ombudsman as officers had earlier tried to stop the vehicle.

The dead man was driving a 4 x 4 vehicle which crashed into fencing outside Fairview Park in the Clontarf area early on Friday morning.

It has been reproted that the man was on the way - along with other members of his immediate family - to attend the funeral of a female member of the Traveller community.

A Garda statement said a woman in her 40s, who was a passenger in the 4X4, was critically injured and was taken to Dublin’s Mater Hospital.

It said the other passenger, a 13-year-old boy, was taken to Temple Street Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.