A drug addict who knocked down and killed a mother of four while she was shopping with her sister has received a three and a half year sentence and a 30-year driving ban.

A drug addict who killed a woman after his car mounted a footpath on Middle Abbey Street in Dublin has been jailed for two and a half years.

The family of a woman who was knocked down and killed while out shopping with her sister has asked the driver not to get behind the wheel again.