A man has pleaded guilty to drink driving and to dangerous driving causing the deaths of two of his friends in Co Limerick.
Patrick Carroll (21), of Drinagh Fivealley, Birr, Co Offaly, appeared at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court on Wednesday.
Darragh Dullea (21), from Clonakilty, Co Cork, and Cillian Kirwan (19), from Piltown, Co Kilkenny, died in the incident on the N69 at Ballyengland, near Askeaton, on February 20th, 2024.
The car Carroll was driving struck a wall. He and a third passenger required hospital treatment.
Lily Buckley, prosecuting, told the court Carroll, Dullea and Kirwan were friends studying at the Salesian Agricultural College.
Brian McInerney, defending, described it…