Adams' nephews killed in car crash

Two teenage brothers killed in a car crash in Belfast last night were nephews of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.

Two teenage brothers killed in a car crash in Belfast last night were nephews of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.

The driver, Liam McCorry, aged 18, and his brother Michael, 15, died in a collision on the Falls Road outside the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

The boys lived in nearby Hawthorn Street, in the west of the city.

Mr Adams, who is heavily involved in negotiations to secure a political agreement in Northern Ireland, comforted his sister Margaret and the rest of her family after hearing the news.

A Sinn Fein spokesman said: "Everyone is deeply shocked, and our thoughts are with the family at this very difficult time."

A number of other people were hurt when the brothers' Suzuki car collided with a taxi.

Their deaths brought to 114 the number of fatalities on Northern Ireland's roads this year.

In 1997, the teenagers' brother-in-law Terry Enwright, a community worker in West Belfast, was shot dead by loyalists outside a club.