Judge’s charges

A series of text messages, sent to friends by an accused man in a hit- and-run case, has been read out to a jury.

A jury in a fatal hit-and- run trial was yesterday shown more than three hours of CCTV footage tracking a large, grey, vehicle suspected of being involved in the incident.

A jury is due to be shown CCTV footage today tracking a vehicle suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run, almost three years ago.

Friends of a 23-year-old man suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run told yesterday of drinking with him into the early hours, on the day of the incident.

A man suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Co Kerry almost three years ago later told Australian police he had not been in a crash before going there.

A friend of a man charged in connection with a fatal hit and run told a court yesterday he had phoned the accused and spoken to him on the morning of the crash.

A jury was yesterday shown how two sections of a vehicle bumper, found in separate locations near the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident, joined together.

A 42-year-old father of four died from multiple injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit and run accident while cycling, a court heard yesterday.

The widow of a 42-year-old hit-and-run accident victim has told how she heard the news of his death after his body had been found a short distance from their home.

Debris found at the scene of a hit and run in which a cyclist died, came from a vehicle driven by a 22-year-old man on trial in connection with the incident.

A 22-year-old man from the north Cork area, arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident as he was about to board a flight to Australia at Heathrow Airport, is to be extradited.

The family of a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run have thanked the gardaí for tracking down the prime suspect, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London as he was about to board a flight to Australia.

The grieving widow of a 42-year-old cyclist killed in a hit and run a year ago said the driver who left her husband to die at the side of the road had a “heart of stone”.

Four Kerry children are spending their first Christmas without their father, who was killed in a hit and run accident close to his home on July 1.

Pleas were renewed yesterday for information that could lead to the arrest of a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Co Kerry.

Gardaí want to interview a number of people in an attempt to eliminate them from a fatal hit-and-run inquiry — including one person who has reportedly left the country.

Gardaí investigating a fatal hit-and-run accident are focussing their search for a vehicle in the Duhallow area of north-west Cork.

The family of a hit-and-run victim yesterday renewed an emotional plea to the driver of the vehicle involved to come forward.

A priest speaking yesterday for the distraught family of a hit-and-run accident victim appealed to the driver to come forward.

A man in his 40s died in a hit-and-run incident in Co Kerry.