Two die in separate Dublin motorbike crashes

Two men have been killed in separate motorbike crashes in Dublin overnight.

Two men have been killed in separate motorbike crashes in Dublin overnight.

In the first incident, a 28-year-old man ws fatally injured when his bike collided with a car at John McCormack Avenue in the south city suburb of Crumlin. He died in St James's Hospital.

He was named tody as Mr Jason Carpenter.

The second man, aged 25, was killed after his motorcycle hit a kerb at Blanchardstown Road South at 4.30 a.m. He was taken to James Connolly Memorial Hospital, where he died later.

Garda´i named him this evening as Mr Mark Grogan, from Sheepmore Way in Blanchardstown.

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