Gardaí are investigating two separate road accidents this morning that left two men dead.
An 18-year old and a man in his 40s were killed in Cork and Kildare.
The first accident happened at 2.20am on the M7 near Kildare town.
A man in his 40s was killed when the jeep he was driving crashed into a barrier on the centre median of the road.
At 2.40am in Bandon, Co Cork, an 18-year old man died in a single-vehicle accident.
The victims’ names have not yet been released.