Woman killed in crash was two-and-a-half times legal alcohol limit

A CORONER warned motorists yesterday of the potentially lethal dangers of driving the morning after a night of drinking alcohol.

Woman killed in crash was  two-and-a-half times legal alcohol limit

Dr Michael Kennedy issued the warning during an inquest in Mallow, Co Cork, into the death of a young woman who died after her car crashed into a pillar outside Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde mansion in Fermoy last March.

Moira Burke, 33, from Castlehyde, Fermoy, had been drinking with colleagues from Castlehyde Stud at a Cheltenham preview in a pub in Fermoy on March 9.

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