Four killed in road accidents

THE carnage on Irish roads claimed four more lives in the past 24 hours — two in Co Limerick and two in Co Donegal.

A weekend in Limerick for a young Co Waterford couple ended in tragedy when they were killed instantly after their car was involved in a collision with a van near Pallasgreen, Co Limerick. The two occupants in the van were seriously injured. The dead couple were named as Clodagh Phelan, aged 26, the driver of the red Nissan Primera car, and her partner, Desmond Quinlan, aged 34, of 16 Birchwood, Killure, Waterford. The couple had two young children, a five-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl.

According to gardaí, the couple had spent the weekend in Limerick and were returning home at the time of the accident, which occurred around 7.20am on the main Limerick-Tipperary road.