Motorway closed as ice causes multiple crashes

TREACHEROUS weather conditions led to scores of accidents throughout Cork yesterday, the worst of which resulted in the closure of the county’s only motorway.

Gardaí were forced to close the M8 at Fermoy after 14 separate accidents were reported on the southbound carriageways.

Nobody was seriously injured in the accidents or in a six-car pile-up on the Glanmire bypass near Dunkettle.