“I pushed the coffins apart and knelt between them and put my left hand on Geraldine’s clasped hands and my right hand on Louise’s and cried for my wife and daughter.”

A law student whose dangerous driving caused the death of a mother and daughter last Christmas was banned from driving for 15 years and given a suspended jail sentence today.

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas.

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas, writes Joe Leogue.

The death of a mother and daughter in a tragic car crash just three days before Christmas has numbed the north Cork areas of Kilworth and Fermoy.

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UPDATE: UCC has expressed its sincerest sympathies to the family of the student who died, along with her mother, in yesterday's road accident in Co Cork.