Deadly month as toll up 10 on last year

A SCHOOLGIRL and her little brother died in a crash yesterday — the last victims in what was among the most deadly Februarys on our roads in recent years.

Last night, their mother battled for her life at Tallaght Hospital after being moved from the Midlands Hospital in Portlaoise.

The girl, 8, and boy, 7, were passengers in the car which was involved in a head-on crash with a lorry on a dangerous stretch of road at Walterstown, Nurney, Co Kildare.