A busy junction where an American couple died in an accident last September and where another US couple were injured in a smash in April could be closed permanently, Cork County Council has said.

Warning signs are to be erected near a junction on the N20 where two US tourists were killed and where two more escaped with their lives in almost identical crashes.

No-one else has to die here —that’s the blunt message from two Americans with a tragic connection who have backed calls to close a lethal turn on a stretch of the N20 Cork to Limerick road.