Your top stories on Wednesday: Cousins die in Co Donegal crash; how three friends in their 30s built new homes on derelict Dublin 4 site

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Cousins Eoghán Dawson (20, left) and Kían Dawson-Kirk (16), who died in a road crash in Co Donegal last weekend. Photograph: GoFundMe

Cousins who died in Co Donegal crash were on a ‘quick trip to their favourite place’

The two young men who died as a result of a fatal road traffic incident in Co Donegal last weekend were cousins.

Kían Dawson-Kirk and Eoghán Dawson died after the car in which they were travelling struck a wall and ended up in a field at Cross in Quigley’s Point at 11.15pm on Saturday night. The two are understood to have been out for a cross-Border drive.

Kían (16) was pronounced dead at the scene. Eoghán (20) died on Tuesday afternoon from his injuries at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

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