Gardaí to send file to DPP after road death of pensioner

GARDAÍ are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following the death of an 86-year-old former nurse in a hit and run accident.

The file is being compiled after the driver of the car gave himself up a few hours after Mary Josephine McCarthy was knocked down in Castlemartyr, Co Cork, last Tuesday.

She sustained serious head injuries following the accident which happened at 7.10am, just yards from her front door. Ms McCarthy died at 1.10pm at Cork University Hospital.