AT NIGHT, here on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries, we hear the pardelas — Cory’s Shearwaters — mewling as they cruise high above the lights of the harbour; their calls echoing against the sheer rock face that rises 1,000m directly above the port beach.

DURING peak traffic hours, an estimated 450 trucks thunder along the main N8 route in south Tipperary where yesterday’s horror crash occurred.

THE horrific crash which claimed four lives yesterday was on a notorious stretch of road.