A FORMER US National Guardsman has been jailed for six years for killing a teenage dancer from Clare while driving drunk.

A former US National Guardsman has been jailed for up to six years for killing a teenage dancer from Ireland while drink-driving.

A 25-year-old US soldier has been committed for trial on charges of killing a 19-year-old Irish dancer in a road accident in Pennsylvania last month.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in the US in connection with the fatal crash, which killed Irish woman Margaret Brohan 10 days ago.

An Irish woman was killed when a pickup truck hit the car she was travelling in, authorities in the US said.