Boy, four, dies after being hit by mother’s car

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy was killed on Saturday when he was accidentally knocked down by his mother in a tragic incident in the driveway of their family home.

The boy has been named as Paul Carroll, of Ballinabrackey, Kinnegad, Co Westmeath.

It is understood the boy and his father were getting turf at the front of the house as the boy’s mother was driving towards the house.