US snow plough accident leaves girl fighting for life

A YOUNG woman from the outskirts of Limerick city is fighting for her life after a freak accident at a ski resort in the US involving a snow plough.

Tara Flynn, aged 22, was on holiday at the resort in Colorado where her cousins work as ski instructors.

She is in a coma and her parents Tom and Mary have flown to be at her hospital bedside.