Couple who died in head-on collision named

THE elderly couple who died in a head-on crash in Co Limerick on Wednesday have been named as Maurice (Moss) and Margaret Hartnett from Gurteen West, Knockaderry.

Both in their early 60s, they are survived by six grown-up children, one of whom has been travelling in New Zealand. Another daughter works in Washington.

Two men in their early 20s, one from Askeaton and the other from Rathkeale, who were in another vehicle, were said to be in a critical but stable condition at the Mid-Western Regional hospital.