Car accidents claim seven lives over the weekend

A COUNTY councillor spoke yesterday about how he came across a horrific head-on crash which claimed the lives of two people.

“I was returning home from the Tipperary v Galway hurling match when I came on the scene,” said Tipperary North Riding councillor Martin Kennedy.

“Both cars were a complete write-off. My wife Helena, a nurse at St Camilla’s Hospital in Limerick, and another local nurse rendered medical assistance to the victims until local doctor Patrick Moroney arrived on the scene along with the ambulance.”