Two seriously ill men were airlifted to hospital after a crash in Co. Roscommon last night.

At about 7.30, a car went through a barrier at a T junction near Mountallen on the Dromahair to Drumshambo Road. Gardaí say the vehicle fell from a bank and landed on its roof in a river - no other cars were involved.

The two male occupants of the car - one of them in his late 30s, the other in his 40s, were airlifted to Sligo General Hospital for treatment.

The road is closed and diversions are in place.

The photograph above is of a training exercise, and not the accident referred to in the article