Cyclist’s widower: Beef up road safety at Gap of Dunloe

The husband of a cyclist killed in the Gap of Dunloe in Co Kerry has written to the Department of Transport about the lack of safety and traffic controls on the very narrow road shared by cyclists, hikers, farm vehicles, pony carts and tourist cars.

Don Theiler’s wife Janet Price, who was in her 60s, was killed on the afternoon of May 30 near the Kate Kearney’s Cottage side of the Gap when she collided with a trailer full of lambs after rounding an extremely sharp turn.

The couple, who are from Burien, Washington State, had spent two weeks travelling around Ireland and the day before they were due to return home to the US, they rented bikes to see the lakes of Killarney and the Gap of Dunloe.