‘I held Kevin’s hand and I knew straight away he was dead’

THE death toll on Irish roads climbed to 98 yesterday after a two-car accident left a woman dead and two people in hospital.

The head-on collision took place on the N8 just a mile and a half south of Urlingford at around 2.20pm yesterday.

It was the second road fatality in Co Tipperary over the weekend and the ninth in the county so far this year.