Newborn ‘critical’ after mother rammed by car

A NEWBORN baby born shortly after her 16-year-old mother was rammed by a car during a long-standing feud was “critical” in hospital last night.

A member of the Travelling community, who cannot be named for legal reasons, the girl was struck by a stolen car at an illegal Traveller encampment near the cattle mart on the Old Kilmeadan Road in Co Waterford yesterday.

It is understood that the girl came out of a caravan as cars began ramming a number of vehicles and was hit as she fled.